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THE 55th field ARTILLERY' BRIGADE 



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A Battery of I55's Firing From a Sunken Road 



Pre£ 



rerace 



While this volume, as its title implies, is a 
history of the 55th Field Artillery Brigade, of 
the 30th American Division, it is really a his- 
tory prepared for the men and officers of the 
115th Field Artillery and the 105th Ammu- 
nition Train. 

Opportunity for the other regiments to join 
in its publication was offered, but boards of 
officers appointed in the 1 1 4th and I 1 3th Field 
Artilleries could not agree on a working basis 
with the boards of the 1 1 5th Field Artillery 
and the 105th Ammunition Tram, and those 
regiments are publishing less elaborate individ- 
ual histories of their own. The boards of the 
present history, however, thought it best to make 
this volume a general one of the brigade and, 
for that reason, included in it the rosters and 
other information of the two 75 m-m regiments, 
the 1 13th F. A. and 1 14th F. A. This vol- 
ume is intended both as a history of the brigade 
and as a souvenir of the experiences of the 
individuals who composed it in the World 
War. Memory, at best, is a tricky thing, and 
the incidents and friendships of the service 



might soon be forgotten without the vivid re- 
minders of this book. 

To those who took part in the war, the ad- 
ventures and hardships, the discomforts and 
dangers of the service, even now, so soon aft- 
erwards, seem almost as dreams — unreal and 
vague as though they were merely tricks of the 
imagination and had not, in fact, been lived 
through and endured. 

As the years go by, it is hoped that this vol- 
ume will be a source of pleasure to those fine 
men who made up the brigade and a prized 
and treasured possession for their posterity. 

The brigade makes no claim for exceptional 
service. It does not even claim that it won the 
war. The record of its service and its achieve- 
ments has been made up and speaks for itself. 
The part it took in the great struggle was not 
inconsiderable. That it acquitted itself with 
credit, goes without saying. Its record is such 
that every man who served in it, whether as 
private, non-commissioned officer, or officer, can 
look back upon the experience with pride and 
satisfaction and feel, at least, that he did his 



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THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



bit in the war. It was fired with that true spirit 
of patriotism and possessed to the highest de- 
gree that dauntless courage and supreme ca- 
pacity for endurance which characterized the 
American fightmg forces throughout. 

The brigade was in the first 700,000 of the 
American Expeditionary Forces to land in 
France and was at the front from the 22nd of 
August, 1918, until the armistice brought a 
sudden end to the fightmg on November the 
11th, 1918. It went through the St. Mihiel 
Drive, marched across the weary kilometers to 
the Argonne and took a conspicuous part in 
this greatest of all the great battles of the 
world. It had the distinction of serving in all 
of the American armies, the First, Second and 
Third; of serving with six divisions and eight 
corps. It supported the 89th, 37th, 32nd, 79th 
and 33rd Divisions in battle, and was in the 
attack of the Second Army on the morning of 
November the eleventh, which had for its ob- 
jective the fortified stronghold of Metz and the 
important iron mining region about Briey. 

The brigade was commended in orders for 
its good service m battle, and on the colors of 
its three regiments are service ribbons with 
names that will live so long as the world shall 
stand. 

In addition to the attack by the Second 
Army, which was cut short by the armistice, 
the brigade is officially credited with the fol- 
lowing defensive and offensive operations : 

Toul Sector, France, Aug. 25-Sept. I 1 , 
1918. 

St. Mihiel Offensive, Sept. 12-Sept. 16, 
1918. 

Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Sept. 26-Oct. 8, 
1918. 

Woevre Sector, Oct. 1 1-Nov. 8, 1918. 

Second Army Offensive, Nov. 9-Nov. 1 1 , 
1918. 



On the victory ribbon awarded the members 
of the brigade there are four stars, and on the 
Victory medal to be hereafter given there will 
be four battle clasps. 

Two of its units, the 1 1 5th Field Artillery 
and the 105th Ammunition Train, served with 
credit on the Mexican border as infantry regi- 
ments, and while they did not there engage in 
battle, they did important duties in guarding 
the frontier and were prepared to have carried 
the war into the enemy's country had that 
necessity arisen. 

In February, 1918, General W. J. Snow 
Chief of Field Artillery, in an official document 
concerning report of an inspection of fifteen 
National Guard artillery brigades, includes the 
following : 

In only four brigades is there anything approach- 
ing a satisfactory state of discipline in all the organiza- 
tions of the brigade. 

The most serious condition existing in the field 
artillery brigades of the National Guard is the lack 
of progress of training. In only four brigades is any- 
thing like intensive training going on. In these four 
brigades training is intensive, and rapid progress is 
being made. In the 53th Brigade, the brigade com- 
mander was with his brigade, and although the brigade 
had no artillery material except such as had been im- 
provised, and no fire control equipment, either ord- 
nance or signal, rapid progress was being made. 

The brigade received the highest rating of 
any artillery brigade trained in France, whether 
Regular Army, National Army or National 
Guard. This rating was given on the very fine 
record made by it at the training camp near 
Guer, France, officially known as Camp de 
Coetquidan. 

The fact that the brigade never served with 
its own, the 30th Division, prevented it from 
receiving greater recognition for its splendid 
work and magnificent battle record. Division 
commanders and divisional supply officers are 
prone to look after their own units in preference 



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Page seven 



to those that are attached only for a time. 
There was more or less difficulty m ration and 
forage supplies and the securing of shoes, cloth- 
ing and other equipment, the brigade receiving 
what was left after the units of the division to 
which it was attached had been cared for. 
There was also great difficulty and much 
wasted work in preparing pay-rolls and getting 
the regiments paid. Rolls would be prepared 
and turned in to the division to which attached 
and before the rolls could be checked and the 
money secured, orders wou'd transfer the bri- 
gade to some other division and the work had 
to be done over again. The same difficulties 
were experienced in requisitions for supplies. 
Much confusion and delay was occasioned in 
the mail service on this same account, but, on 
the whole, the mail service was satisfactory, 
although slow. 

The real life-blood of any military organi- 
zation is its non-commissioned officers. The 
strength of the 55th F. A. Brigade and, to the 
writer's absolute personal knowledge, of the 
I 15th Field Artillery, was in the high class 
men who were sergeants and corporals, and in 
the great degree of efficiency they attained. 
Good non-commissioned officers are indicative 
of good commissioned officers. It is impos- 
sible to have the one without the other. In the 
National Guard days, when the I 1 5th F. A. 
was the Frst Tennessee Infantry, the founda- 
tion of its non-commissioned personnel was al- 
ready building. In the service on the Mexican 
Border, the structure reached completion. At 
the time the regiment was mustered into service 
for the European War it had as competent and 
fine a lot of non-commissioned officers as were 
ever gathered in any regiment of the United 
States Army, whether National Guard, Na- 
tional Army or Regulars. Indeed, its person- 
nel was so high that over one hundred and 



seventy of its non-coms, and privates held com- 
missions in the European War, ranking all the 
way from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant 
Colonel. Elsewhere in this volume is a list of 
the men who have been commissioned from the 
regiment since it was called into service in 1916. 
This list is incomplete, as many others who re- 
ceived their first real military training in the 
regiment on the border have since held com- 
missions of various ranks. The commissioning 
of these men made heavy drains on the regi- 
ment repeatedly, taking many of its best trained 
men, but so high was the personnel that there 
was always some one else to step into the 
breach and make good. Many of its non- 
coms., well qualified to hold commissions, de- 
clined to go to training camps when oppor- 
tunity was offered, preferring to hold a warrant 
in the regiment, rather than a commission in 
some other outfit. 

This history is the outgrowth of an idea con- 
ceived by the editor while the brigade was 
marking time in the Troyon or Woevre sector, 
after the armistice. Work was begun then col- 
lecting the necessary data, rosters, etc. While 
the brigade was in the Tent Camp at the Le 
Mans Embarkation Center, its first assembling 
as a whole since it left the training area at 
Coetquidan, the plan was perfected. 

In spite of the most painstaking work of the 
editor, there may be some mistakes in the spell- 
ing of names, in the addresses and in the grades 
of some of the men of the various regiments. 
This is but natural and is due to the conditions 
under which the history has been compiled. 
Many of the records of the batteries were lost 
or destroyed in the perpetual moving and shift- 
ing and marching at the front. The rosters as 
printed were compiled by the battery clerks 
while the brigade was in the Le Mans area 
preparing to return to the United States. The 



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battery clerks had a thousand and one reports 
to make up, the personnel of the batteries was 
changing daily, with men being detailed to 
schools, sent to the hospitals and the like, and 
it will be nothing less than marvelous if many 
mistakes have not crept into the rosters. The 
editor has no way to check the rosters and is 
compelled to print them just as they were pre- 
pared in the batteries and submitted under the 
regimental order calling for them. All of the 
rosters were prepared as of November 1 Ith, 
1918. Appended to each battery and com- 
pany roster is a list of men who were transferred 
before that date. Some men were returned to 
the regiments on the very eve of sailing and their 
names may not appear on any of the lists. It 
must be remembered that the editor and the 
battery clerks did the best they could, working 
under such conditions as existed. Many men 
were promoted from private to corporal and 
from corporal and sergeant to higher grades 
after the rosters had been made up for the his- 
tory. It was a hopeless task trying to keep 
up with these changes. The rosters, in the 
main, give conditions at the ending of the fight- 
ing and it was glory enough to have been at the 
front with the brigade in any grade or rank. 
This IS a history of a brigade and not of 
individuals. 

For the 1 1 5th Field Artillery, Col. Harry 
S. Berry and Captains John D. Key and An- 
drew J. Donelson were named on the board to 
control the publishing of the history. Captain 
Key resigned from the board at Ft. Oglethorpe, 
when he transferred to the regular army, and 
Captain Charles L. Neely was elected in his 
stead. The board for the 105th Ammunition 
Train consisted of Captains H. O. Withington 
and W. H. Cogswell, Jr., and Lieut. R. L. 
Jeffords. Col. Berry was made trustee of the 
funds. 



The history of the 55th F. A. Brigade 
proper, as used in this volume, was prepared by 
Captain Walter Chandler of the brigade staff 
and is printed almost intact, with a few altera- 
tions and minor changes. The history of the 
105th Ammunition Train was prepared by 
Lt. Col. W. W. Lewis, who commanded the 
Train. The history of the I 13th F. A. was 
prepared by Capt. Arthur L. Fletcher. 

In addition to the gentlemen named above, 
the editor desires to extend thanks to the fol- 
lowing men for valuable and intelligent assist- 
ance renderd in compiling the data for the 
book : Regimental Sergeant Major John L. 
Scruggs and Sergeants Wm. Richardson, Jos. 
P. Floresh, John H. Morriss and Winder Mc- 
Gavock of the 1 1 5th F. A., and to Regimental 
Sergeant Major L. F. Amis and Sergeants R. 
Jakes and Charles A. Plumb of the 1 1 4th F. 
A. Their untiring efforts and cheerful and 
ready willingness to help contributed much to 
the accuracy and interest of this history. 

Appreciation is also due to Sergeant Kerr 
Eby and to Harper & Brothers, New York, for 
permission to use the magnificent drawings en- 
titled "From a Soldier's Sketch Book," which 
appeared in the June, 1919, issue of Harper's 
Magazine. 

A brief history of the 1 05th Trench Mortar 
Battery, together with roster of that organiza- 
tion is included. 

The history of the 105th Mobile Ordnance 
Repair Shop was written by Captain Donald 
E. Holmes, who commanded this unit through- 
out the war. 

The histories of the batteries, companies and 
detachments of the 115th F. A. and 105th 
Ammunition Train were written by various of- 
ficers and enlisted men who were familiar 
with the facts and circumstances. The edtior 
has been unable to secure a correct list of these 



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Page nine 



authors, and for that reason cannot give recog- 
nition to them by name. 

Acknowledment is made to Lieut. Grant- 
land Rice, of Nashville and New York, for his 
original poem, "The 55th Field Artillery Bri- 
gade," written especially for this history. 

The editor wishes to express his deep appre- 
ciation to Mr. W. A. Benson, Vice-President 
of the Benson Printing Company, Nashville, 



Tenn., publishers of this volume, and to Mr. 
W. A. Cox, foreman of their composing room, 
for their deep interest in making the history me- 
chanically perfect and helping to eliminate the 
errors which will, in spite of the greatest care, 
creep into a book of such voluminous bulk. 

William J. Bacon, Editor. 
Memphis, Tenn., November 11, 1919. 




Souvenirs 



The American Enlisted Man 

AN APPRECIATION OF THE PRIVATE SOLDIER 

AND NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS 

OF THE A. E. F. 



No men have ever taken the hardships of an active campaign so easily and 
good-humoredly as the Private Soldiers and Non-Commissioned Officers of the 
American Expeditionary Forces. At the front they were always cheerful and 
ready for the hardest and most dangerous tasks. There was kicking and knock- 
ing, of course, for that is the God-given right of an American citizen, but it was 
of the surface, and down in the depths of each man's soul there was the true gold 
of manhood and the courage to carry on. 

They went through the war with a smile for everything. Hardships, discom- 
forts, fatigue, rain, snow, sunshine, shells, danger — all were considered as a part 
of the day's work and treated accordingly and made the best of. Songs and jokes 
were builded from the things that went wrong. They endured all that came with 
a cheerfulness and complacency that was a joy to their commanding officers and 
a matter of bald astonishment to the Allies and of wonder to the Boche. 

Whatever controversy may arise among the nations of the earth concerning who 
won the war, the fact stands out beyond all possibility of questioning that it was 
won by the American Buck Private and his able assistant and buddy, the Ameri- 
can Non-Commissioned Officer. They won it, too. in spite of the blunders, igno- 
rance and crass and criminal stupidity and inefficiency of some of the officers. It 
was the American Private Soldier that put the fear of God into the Germans and 
thereby brought the war to a speedy and untimely end. 

The history of the war from the American end is a series of unreadinesses. 
America got into the war before the nation was ready ; her armies were mobilized 
before camps and equipment and arms were ready; the troops were hustled over- 
seas before transportation and camps were ready; they were rushed to the front 
before they were ready; the armistice came before the Allies were ready for it; 
the troops of America were hurried to the forwarding camps in the S. O. S. before 
the camps were ready for them, and, from these camps, they were shoved to thi' 
base ports before proper preparation had been made for them. In fact, the 
only redeeming feature of the whole business is that the American Army hit the 
Boche before the aforesaid Boche was ready and thus the war was ended. 

No better soldiers have ever been created than those of America. They may 
have been six-week or six-month men, but they were soldiers every one of them 
and fighting men beyond compare. They whipped the flower — the picked troops 
of the Imperial German Empire — veterans of four years of bloody fighting and th" 
product of forty years of intensive training. They never failed or faltered. What- 
ever came they were men and soldiers. They fought like wild men and they died 
like heroes. It was a pleasure and an honor beyond any other on earth to have 
been associated with the soldiers of the American Army in any capacity, private, 
non-commissioned officer, officer, or commander. The Editor. 




HISTORY OF THE 
55th field artillery 

BRIGADE 



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GENERAL GEORGE G. GATLEY. Born Portland, Maine. 
Married Miss Bessie Walton. Daughters, Misses Edith and Dorothy 
Walton. Member Army and Navy Club, Washington, D. C.; Island 
Lodge No. 56, A. F. and A. M.. and Island Chapter No. 1, R. A. 
M.. Havana, Cuba; Galveston Council No. 1, San Felipe Comman- 
dery No. I. and El Mina Shrine, Galveston, Texas; Army Con- 
sistory, Fort Leavenworth, Hans. Graduated U. S. M. A., Class of 
1890. Assigned to 5th Artillery. Served at various stations. Spanish- 
American War with Siege Battery K. 5th Artillery. Philippines 
Insurection, commanding 17th Battery, F. A., serving two years in 
Mindanao and Jolo under General Leonard Wood and (then) Cap- 
lain Pershing, in several expeditions after hostile Moros. Battery men- 
tioned for distinguished service in this campaign (G. O. No. 1, Dept. 
Mindanao, January 1, 1905). Sent to Cuba, October. 1906, with 
A. O. C. P., commanding 14th Battery, F. A., now F Battery, 3d 
F. A. Served there through second Intervention and returned for four 
years as Field Artillery Instructor to Cuban Artillery, organizing and 
instructing a regiment of Field Artillery. On Texas border from 
1913-15. F. A. member Ordnance Board, Sandy Hook P. G., two 
years. Brigadier General Aug. 5, 1917, assigned to organize and 
command 55th F. A. Brigade, Camp Sevier, S. C. Took brigade 



verseas May, 1918. Assigned command 67th F. A. Br 



of 



the 42d Division (Rainbow), joining July 9th, joining on Champagne 
front. Participated Champagne- Marne Defensive, Aisne-Marne, St. 
Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives, Army of Occupation of Ger- 
many, returning to United States with same command April 27, 1919. 



GENERAL JOHN W. KILBRETH, JR. Born New York, 
N. Y., appointed to U. S. Army from same state. A.B., Harvard, 
'98. Graduate Artillery School, 1902; Distinguished Graduate Army 
School of the Line, 1909. 2d Lt. U. S. Army, September 8, 1898; 
assigned to 4th U. S. Field Artillery, 1st Lt. Artillery Corps, May 
8, 1901; Captain, April 1. 1904; Major, May 15, 1917; Lt. Colonel, 
August 5, 1917; Colonel, February 7. 1918; Brigadier-General, N. A., 
October 14. 1918. Served with 4th, 5th, Isl and 9th Regiments of 
Field Artillery, U. S. Army. Commanded 55th F. A. Brigade in 
Woevre Sector. Director Department of Firing, School of Fire for 
Field Artillery, Fort Sill, Okla. Unmarried. Permanent address, 
University Club, New York, N. Y. 




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Page fifteen 




A Battery of 155 Howitzers in Action 



The 35 th Field Artillery Brigade 

Organization and Training 



The 55th Field Artillery Brigade came into 
existence in the reorganization of the military 
forces of the United States for America's par- 
ticipation in the World War. The Brigade 
became a part of the 30di Infantry Division 
which was made up of troops in the National 
Guard of the States of Tennessee, North Caro- 
lina and South Carolina. The Division, which 
was placed under the command of Major- 
General John F. Morrison, was styled the 
"Old Hickory Division," as a tribute to Gen- 
eral Andrew Jackson, seventh President of 
the United States, who was born near the 
border line between North Carolina and South 
Carolina. Camp Sevier, Greenville, South 
Carolina, was designated as the Division train- 
ing camp, and Brigadier-General George G. 
Gatley, N.A., was selected to command the 
Artillery Brigade. 

The National Guardsmen assembled at ren- 
dezvous points in their own States on July 25th, 
1917, and were drafted into federal service on 
August 5th, 1917. Camp Sevier was opened 
about September 1 st, 1917, and the regiments 
which were to comprise the 55th Field Artillery 
Brigade arrived there shortly thereafter. 



The First North Carolina Field Artillery 
Regiment, commanded by Colonel Albert L. 
Cox, reached Camp Sevier on September 1 6th, 
1917, and was renamed the I 1 3th Field Ar- 
tillery. The First Tennessee Field Artillery 
Regiment, commanded by Lieut. -Colonel Luke 
Lea, arrived there on September 1 1th, and 
became the 1 14th Field Artillery. The First 
Tennessee Infantry, commanded by Colonel 
Harry S. Berry, and Troop D, Tennessee 
Cavalry, commanded by Captain Ambrose 
Gaines, reported at Camp Sevier on Septem- 
ber 9th and 6th, respectively. The former 
was changed to the 1 1 5th Field Artillery and 
the latter to the 1 05th Trench Mortar Battery. 
The Second South Carolina Infantry Regiment 
commanded by Lieut. -Colonel W. W. Lewis, 
which was later attached to the Brigade and 
functioned therewith throughout the war, 
reached Camp Sevier on September 25th, 
1917, and was made the 105th Ammunition 
Train. Lieut. -Colonel Lea was promoted to 
be Colonel of the 1 14th F. A., after arrival 
at Camp Sevier. 

The I 13th and 1 14th Field Artillery Regi- 
ments were organized immediately after the 



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LIEUTENANT JEAN ROUAL LAMOTHE. French Liaison Of- 
ficer, attached to the I 1 5lh Field Artillery throughout the war. Lieutenant 
Lamothe joined the regiment while it was in the training area at Camp 
Coetquidan. France, and rendered most valuable aid in the training of the 
men and officers and in the activities of the regiment at the front. He was 
in the war from its inception with the French armies, serving not only on 
the Western front, but in Italy. He has decorations for gallantry in action 
from the French and Italian Governments. He is a resident of Dax. a suburb 
of Bordeaux. He holds the commission of 1st Ll. in the 113th Regiment 
of French Field Artillery. 



CAPTAIN WALTER CHANDLER. Born Jackson. Tenn. 
Unmarried. Attended University of Tennessee. Attorney at law. 
Enlisted Company I, 1st Tenn. Inf., 1915; discharged at Nashville, 
Tenn., July, 1916. Enlisted Isl Tenn. F. A., June. 1917. Commis- 
sioned 1st Lieut. July 24, 1917. Promoted Captain March 9, 1918. 
Served with Battery A and Supply Companies, 114th F. A. Sailed 
with 114th F. A. in command of Supply Company. Acting Supply 
Officer, artillery range at Cleveland Mills, S. C, March 15 to April 
28, 1918. Brigade Munitions and Operations Officer. 55th F. A. 
Brigade, Sept. 19. 1918, to Feb. 6. 1919. Compiled data and wrote 
"History of 55lh F. A. Brigade," which is used by the editor in this 
volume. Home address, 1353 Harberl Ave., Memphis, Tenn. Three 
brothers in service in European War, two, William and Hugh, holding 
commissions as Captains. 





LIEUTENANT HOR.^CE T. POLK. Born Birmingham, Ala. Un- 
married. Enlisted Battery E, 1st Tenn. F. A.. May 29, 1917. Battalion 
Sergeant Major, August 8, 1917. Commissioned 2d Lt., 114th F. A.. 
November 24, 1917. Promoted 1st Lt., same regiment, June 24, 1918. 
Sailed overseas with 114lh F. A. and served throughout the war with this 
regiment and as A. D. C. to C. O., 55th F. A. Brigade. Served as Bat- 
tery Executive until November 1, 1918, when transferred to Brigade Head- 
quarters as A. D. C. Home address, 302 7th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 



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Page seventeen 



United States declared war on Germanj' and 
were composed largely of inexperienced troops 
who had enhsted especially to fight in the con- 
flict, but the other organizations had seen serv- 
ice on the Mexican border during the latter 
part of 1916 and the early part of 1917. The 
personnel was high in all the organizations and 
contained a large percentage of well educated 
men and officers. 

In the designation of the calibres of the arms 
of the regiments, the 1 13th and the 1 14th be- 
came three-inch field artillery regiments, the 
1 1 5th became a motorized six-inch Howitzer 
field artillery regiment, and the 105th Trench 
Mortar Battery was directed to train in the 
use of six-inch Newton mortars. 

That part of Camp Sevier allotted to the 
Artillery Brigade was a virgin forest, and many 
weeks were spent in clearing camp site and chill 
grounds, but the organizations started assidu- 
ously to work to master the profession of arms, 
and the first general inspection of the Brigade 
showed that much progress was being made, 
although the troops were being drilled on crude 
wooden imitation guns. The first battery of 
1902 Model 3-inch guns was received on No- 
vember 1st, but fire control instruments did not 
arrive until later and wooden boards calibrated 
for instruction in the use of instruments were 
made and gave the cannoneers their first impres- 
sion of the technical features of field artillery 
firing. A number of British eighteen-pound 
guns were received in April, 1918. 

Commissioned and non-commissioned offi- 
cers' schools were held daily, and, shortly after 
the first of the year 1918, smoke bomb prac- 
tice was engaged in regularly. A large tract 
of land twenty-three miles from Camp Sevier 
at Cleveland Mills, South Carolina, was leased 
by the United States Government and an artil- 
lery target range was constructed. A valuable 
course in artillery firing was conducted for six 



weeks, beginning March 15th, 1918, under 
Brigadier-General Gatley and Lieut. -Colonel 
Thomas D. Osborne, a regular army officer, 
who was in command of the 1 14th Field Ar- 
tillery Regiment while Colonel Lea was attend- 
ing a special course of instruction at Fort Sam 
Houston, Texas, and Fort Sill, Okla. 

The regiments received good field training in 
marches to and from the artillery target range 
with over-night rests en route. At the conclu- 
sion of the course at the target range the Bri- 
gade was inspected and found ready for foreign 
service, and entrained for Camp Albert L. 
Mills, Long Island, on May 18-21, 1918. 
The major portion of the Brigade left New 
York for overseas on May 26th, although an 
advance school detachment from each regiment 
had been sent several weeks previously to the 
French artillery school at La Valdahon, 
France. 

Brigade Headquarters and the I 13th F. A. 
Regiment went overseas on H. M. S. 
"Armagh," the 114th F. A. Regiment and 
the 105th Trench Mortar Battery sailed on 
H. M. S. "Karoa," and the II 5th F. A. Regi- 
ment and the 105th Ammunition Train crossed 
on H. M. S. "Mauretania." The convoy of 
which the "Armagh" and "Karoa" were mem- 
bers was fired upon at night in mid-ocean, but 
the torpedo missed its target, and the submarine 
escaped. 

All units landed at Liverpool during the 
early part of June. The I 1 5th F. A. Regi- 
ment and the 1 05 th Ammunition Train were 
sent to Rumsey, England, and the other organ- 
izations of the Brigade went to Winnall 
Downs, Morn Hill Camp, Winchester, Eng- 
land, for a few days' rest from the sea voyage. 
On June I I th that part of the Brigade at Win- 
chester was reviewed by the Duke of Con- 
naught and Prince Henry of Battenburg. 

The Brigade crossed the English Channel 



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THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



Station List, 55 th Field Artillery Brigade 



Station 



Arrived 



Left 



Liverpool. England 



Winchester. England 



Southampton. England 
Le Havre. Seine, Infer- 



Guer. Morbihan . . 

Meurthe et Moselle.Toul 

Ouches (Meuse) 
Lucey (Meurthe et 

Mozelle) 

Noviant (Meurthe & 

Mozelle) 
Flirey (Meurthe & 

Mozelle) 
Bouillonville (Meurthe & 

Mozelle) 
Rambucourt (Meuse) 
Pont sur Meuse (Meuse) 
Pierrefitte (Meuse) 
Deuxnouds (Meuse) 
Auzeville (Meuse) 



Recicourt (Meuse) 
Montfaucon (Meuse) 

Recicourt (Meuse) 



Troyon (Meuse) 

Puxe (Meurthe-Mozelle) 

Spincourt (Meuse) 



Longuyon (Meurthe- 
Mozelle) 

Longwy (Meurthe-Mo- 
zelle 



June 7th 
June 9th 

June 12th 

June 13th 

June 16th 

Aug. 22nd 

Aug. 22nd 

Aug. 26th 

Sept. 11th . 

Sept. 12th 

Sept. 14th 
Sept. 15th 
Sept. 16th 
Sept. 18th 
Sept. 19th 
Sept. 20th 

Sept. 22nd 

Sept. 28th . 

Oct. 8th 



Esch sur Alzette. Gd. 
Duchede Luxembourg 
Remich, Gd. D. de Lux 

Sandweiler, Gd. D. de 

Lux 

Mersch, Gd. D. de Lux . 

Crusnes. Meurthe- 
Mozelle . 



Chambley (Meurthe- 
Mozelle 



Lucey (Meurthe- 
Mozelle) 



Evron (Mayenne) -- 
Le Mans (Sarthe) 
St. Nazaire (Loire).. 



Oct. 
Dec. 
Dec. 



Dec. 
Dec. 



Dec. 
Dec. 



Dec. 
Dec. 



Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 
Jan. 
Feb. 



9th. 
6th 

8th 



9th. 
12th 



12th.. 
15th 



17. 
19 



June 9th 
June 12th 

June 12th 

June 14th 

Aug. 20th 

Aug. 22nd 

Aug. 26th 

Sept. 11th 

Sept. 12th 

Sept. 13th 

Sept. 14th 
Sept. 15th 
Sept. 17th 
Sept. 18th 
Sept. 19th 
Sept. 22nd 



8th 

10th 

12th 
26th 
5th.. 



Authority 



Attached or 
Assigned to 



Detachment 
Stationed at 



V. O. C. G. Base Section 

No. 3 

Embarkation Or. No. 54, 

Hq.Amer. Rest Camps. 

Winchester, England . 
V. O. C. G. Base Sect. 

No. 3 -.-- 

V. O. C. G. Base Sect. 

No. 2 

Tel. No. 439 GHQ dated 

14 Aug., 18 
V. O. C. G. IV American 

Corps 

V. O. C. G. IV Corps .. 



Sept. 


28th 


Oct. 


8th 


Oct. 


9th 


Dec. 
Dec. 
Dec. 


6th .. 
8th .. 
9th.. 


Dec. 


llth. 


Dec. 


15th... 


Dec. 
Dec. 


15th. 
17th... 


Dec. 19 

Jan. 8th, 
1919 


Jan. 


10th. ... 


Jan. 


12th . 


Jan. 


19th .. 


Feb. 


5th.... 



V. O. C. G. 89th Div 

V. O. C. G. 89th Div 

V. O. C. G. 89th Div 

G-3, IV Corps 

G-3, Memo. 76 IV Corps 

G-3. Memo. 76 IV Corps 

II French Army 

II Fr. Army 

Tel. No. 24, G-4, Hq. 1st 

Army 

Tel. No. 24, G-4. Hq. 1st 

Army 

S. O. No. 372. Hq. 1st 

Army.. 



Base Sect. No. 3 

Base Sect. No. 3 . 
Base Sect. No. 3 .. 
Base Sect. No. 2 .. 
Base Section No. 5 



American IV Corps 
American IV Corps 



89th Div 
89th Div 
89th Div 



Knotty Ash Camp 



Willow Down 



89th Div 

IV Corps - 

IV Corps 

II Fr. Army 
II Fr. Army. 

37th Div 

37th Div 



S. O. No. 372. Hq. 1st 
Army 

P.O. No. 36, Hq. 33 Div. 

P. O. 37, Hq. 33rd Div . 

P. O. 37 and Hq. 33rd 
Div 



37th Div., 
Div 



P. O. 37 and Hq. 33rd 

Div 

P. O. 37 and Hq. 33rd 

Div 



P. O. 38. Hq. 33rd Div 
Wireless Tel. 33rd Div.. 
dated Dec. 16 



V. O. C. G. 33rd Div 



G-3 VI Corps. Jan. 5, 
1919 

G-3 VI Corps. Jan. 5th, 
1919 



G-3 order No. 20. II 
Army, 6 Jan.. '19 



G-3 order No. 53. Hq. 

II Army 

S. O. 33. Par. 39A. Hq. 

A E C 
Emb. Or. No. il, A"eI C. 



79th Div 
33rd Div . 
33rd Div - 

33rd Div . 



33rd Div.. 
33rd Div . 
33rd Div.- 
33rd Div 
33rd Div 

33rd Div.. 
33rd Div . 

II Army . 



II Army.. 

30th Div.. 
30th Div.. 



32nd 



Camp No. 2 

Camp de Coetquidan 

Toul 
Ouches 

Lucey 

Lucey 

Lucey 

Lucey 

Lucey 

Pont sur Meuse 

Pierrefitte 

Deuxnouds 

Auzeville 

Brocourt Woods. 

Recicourt.Verriers 

Farm 
Recicourt, Bois de 

Montfaucon 
Recicourt 
Troyon 
Puxe 

Spincourt 

Longuyon 

Longwy 

Esch sur Alzette 

Remich 

Sandweiler 

Mersch 

Colony (Crusnes) 

Chambley 

Lucey 

Evron 

Forwarding Camp, 
A. E. C. 



THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



Page ninelcen 



from Southampton to Havre, France, on the 
night of June 12-13. It was detached from 
the 30th Division and went thence to Camp 
Coetquidan, near Guer, in the Department of 
Morbihan, Brittany, where a large field artil- 
lery school was being conducted by the Ameri- 
can Expeditionary Forces. The advance 
school detachment rejomed the Brigade at 
Coetquidan. 

The organization of the Brigade Staff had 
not been completed in America, although sev- 
eral officers had been assigned thereto at Camp 
Sevier. There, Major Thomas H. R. Mcln- 
tyre, of Tennessee, a former Coast Artillery 
officer, was the Brigade Adjutant from No- 
vember, 1917, until he was found physically 
unqualified for overseas service. Major E. C. 
Roberts, Jr., succeeded Major Mclntyre as 
Brigade Adjutant. Captain Arthur C. Fitz- 
hugh, I 15th Field Artillery, was made Brigade 
Communications Officer, and Sergeant William 
H. Cantrell was promoted to be Second Lieu- 
tenant and was appointed Radio Officer. Lieu- 
tenants Edward A. Everett and George F. 
Milton, Jr., were Aides de Camp to Brigadier 
General Gatley, Lieut. Leo C. Tobin became 
Supply Officer, and Lieut. Matthew Mona- 
ghan was made Detachment Commander. 
First Lieut. Jacques Popelin, French Artillery 
Officer, was attached to the Brigade Staff as 
instructor, and Lieut. Booth, a disabled Cana- 
dian artillery officer, who was on leave in 
America, was retained for two months as 
instructor. 

While at Camp Coetquidan the Brigade 
Staff was completed and at the end of the 
period of training there it was as follows: 

Major E. C Roberts, Jr., Adjutant. 

Captain Arthur C. Fitzhugh, Communica- 
tions Officer. 

Captain Willis T. Stewart, Operations 
Officer. 



First Lieut. Frank B. Evers, Assistant Op- 
erations Officer. 

First Lieut. Kellog Boynton, Intelligence 
Officer. 

First Lieut. Leo C. Tobin, Munitions 
Officer. 

First Lieut. George A. Gordon, Aide de 
Camp. 

Second Lieut. William H. Cantrell, Radio 
Officer. 

Second Lieut. Matthew Monaghan, Detach- 
ment Commander. 

The course at Camp de Coetquidan was 
extensive and practical, and equipped the Bri- 
gade for efficient service at the front. The 
113th and 114th Field Artillery Regiments 
were instructed in the use of the 75 m-m gun, 
the I 1 5th Field Artillery was trained in the 
use of 155 m-m Schneider Howitzer material, 
and was changed to a horse-drawn regiment. 
The 105th Trench Mortar Battery received 
its six-inch Newton mortars, and the 105th 
Ammunition Train was given instruction in 
the duties that it was charged to perform at 
the front. 

An instructor at Coetquidan stated publicly 
that one of the Brigade organizations was the 
best trained artillery regiment that had left the 
school up to that tim.e, and it was learned later 
that the 55th F. A. Brigade was rated as the 
best brigade that had been trained at Camp de 
Coetquidan or in the A. E. F. 

The Brigade was reviewed on July 4, by 
the French General commanding the Region 
of Rennes, by a French senator, and by 
Brigadier-General Gatley, and appeared to a 
splendid advantage. Independence Day was 
celebrated by Americans and French alike. 
Colonel Lea making a fine address to the as- 
sembled troops after the review. 

During the early part of July, Brigadier- 
General Gatley, who had commanded the 



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THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



Brigade since its formation and who was in 
a large measure responsible for its efficiency, 
was transferred to the 67th Field Artillery 
Brigade, and Brigadier-General James A. 
Shipton became Brigade Commander. The 
transfer of Brigadier-General Gatley was a 
source of great disappointment to all the men 
and officers of the Brigade. Everyone had de- 
veloped the highest confidence in his ability and 
integrity, and had hoped for the opportunity to 
fight under his leadership. The success which 
the Brigade attained was in a large measure 
due to the perseverance of Brigadier-General 
Gatley and the thorough training which he had 
given it. 

General Shipton was relieved of command 
of the Brigade during the Meuse-Argonne of- 
fensive and was reduced to his proper grade 
in the regular army and ass.gned to a training 
camp in the S. O. S. and later to duty as 
Assistant Provost Marshal. 

St. MiHiEL Offensive 

The Brigade moved from Camp cle Coetqui- 
dan on August 20th to the Toul sector. Upon 
arrival at Toul, the Brigade was ordered to re- 
lieve certain artillery units in position, and a 
battalion of the Brigade went into line on Aug- 
ust 27th, relieving a battalion of the 58th 
American Field Artillery Brigade. From that 
time, regular reliefs were conducted by the 
different battalions of the Brigade and every 
battery took part in the defense of the Toul 
sector until the St. Mihiel offensive. 

The 55th F. A. Brigade was designated to 
engage in the St. Mihiel drive with the infantry 
of the 89th Division in the IV American Corps 
and was allotted a sector about two and one- 
half kilometers wide extending along the line 
from Flirey eastward to L'mey. Battery E, 
113th Field Artillery, and Battery A, II 4th 
Field Artillery, were detailed to accompany the 



infantry in the advance. The Brigade Post of 
command was at Lucey until the night before 
the attack when it was moved to Noviant. 
Major General Joseph T. Dickman com- 
manded the IV American Corps, Major Gen- 
eral William Lassitter commanded the Corps 
artillery, and Major General William M. 
Wright commanded the 89th Division. 

In addition to the artillery of the 55th F. A. 
Brigade at the outset of the St. Mihiel offen- 
sive there were attached, as part of the 89th 
Division Artillery, nine batteries of the 2 1 2th 
French Field Artillery, nine batteries of the 
250th French Field Artillery, all 75 m-m, two 
batteries of the 160th French 155 m-m R. A. 
P., two batteries of the 160th French 220 m-m 
R.A.P., and the I 76th French Trench Mortar 
Battery, all of which had been commanded by 
Lieut. -Colonel Lanzac Chaunac until he was 
relieved by the commanding officer, 55th F. A. 
Brigade assuming command, after which time 
Colonel Chaunac acted as Chief of Staff of all 
the divisional artillery until the advance. Men- 
tion should be made of the very valuable serv- 
ice rendered by Colonel Chaunac and his staff 
in the St. Mihiel offensive. Their knowledge 
of the sector was of the greatest advantage in 
preparing plans for the attack, and Colonel 
Chaunac was a French officer of the highest 
type. 

Shortly before the attack General Pershing 
visited the 89th Division sector, inspected all the 
plans and assured himself that all was in readi- 
ness for the drive. The original plans con- 
templated a twenty-minute bombardment, but 
at 4:00 p. m. on September 1 1th orders were 
received to change these plans and arrange for a 
four-hour bombardment. This necessitated a 
readjustment of the plans and required prompt 
work on the part of a hitherto inexperienced 
staff, but the plans as altered reached the bat- 
teries in time for all of them to participate in 



THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



Page twenty-one 




10 20 30 40 50 



Gains by the Allies from July 18 to October 20, 1918 



the artillery preparation which began at 1 :00 
o'clock on the morning of September 12th. 
All of the back areas were shelled very effec- 
tively with the assistance of guns of large calibre 
operating directly under the IV American 
Corps. 

The infantry attacked at 5 :20 a. m. and the 
accompanying barrage lasted for five hours and 
forty-five minutes. The infantry made four 
halts, its rate of advance having been assumed 
at one hundred yards in four minutes. The 
89th Division was a well-trained organization 
of good fighters and took all of its objectives 
on schedule time with the artillery m support 
throughout. 

The 55th F. A. Brigade units began to move 



forward at 7:30 o'clock on the morning of 
September 1 2th. A drizzling ram had fallen 
for ten days before the offensive and some of 
the battalions encountered delays because of 
road conditions, which, however, improved 
during the day and enabled many of the light 
batteries to get into advanced positions by the 
evening of September 12th. The second bat- 
talion of the 1 1 5th F. A. was in position near 
Bouillonville by 10:00 o'clock on the morning 
of September 1 3th, and the other battalions of 
the 1 1 5th reached their forward positions on 
September 14th. The 105th Trench Mortar 
Battery was in position near Flirey but did not 
receive ammunition in time to fire in the attack. 
Although there were emphatic predictions to 



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THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



the contrary by French officers, the St. Mihiel 
drive was a complete success. Within sixty- 
four hours after the attack that sahent which 
had been a thorn in the Allied lines for years 
had been removed entirely, the main railway 
line to Verdun from the south had been 
opened, and more than 240 square miles of 
territory had been retaken and liberated. 
Sixteen thousand prisoners were captured and 
a mass of material and stores fell into the hands 
of the Americans and French. The results 
were achieved so quickly that the world was 
electrified by the performance of new and un- 
tried troops. The Allied leaders were so in- 
spired with confidence in the ability of the 
American army to meet and defeat the Im- 
perial German Army that larger and greater 
missions were selected for those troops who had 
earned the right to participate in the more dif- 
ficult tasks to follow. Accordingly, on the 
evening of September 14th, without a respite, 
the 55th F. A. Brigade received a rather urgent 
order to move at once to another front. 

The last unit of the Brigade was directed 
by the IV Corps to clear the town of Essey 
over the St. Baussant road by midnight, and 
bivouac in le Faux Bois Nauginsard until fur- 
ther orders. Incidentally, almost every unit of 



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the Brigade was subjected to shell fire while 
passing through Essey during the night of Sep- 
tember 14th. 

The selection of the point of bivouac evi- 
dently was made after a map of reconnaissance, 
because le Faux Bois Naugmsard proved 
to be all that the name implied. It was a 
veritable swamp and jungle surrounded by 
and interlaced with lines of barbed wire, 
trenches and revetments. Even the road 
leading through it was quagmire. The Bri- 
gade arrived at this wilderness about 5 :00 
o'clock in the morning. A few batteries 
managed to find partial concealment in the edge 
of the false woods, but the major portion of 
the Brigade went to Rambucourt, nearby, 
where the next clay was spent. 

Here the Brigade was compelled to abandon 
some of its draft animals. Having hauled am- 
munition for all units, including the French 
batteries, and having remained in harness in the 
traffic jams for several days without sufficient 
food and with practically no rest, the animals 
were dying or becoming otherwise unservice- 
able, thereby increasing the burdens of the 
serviceable animals and tending to render the 
Brigade immobile each day that passed. 
Furthermore the personnel of the Brigade had 
labored diligently and constantly in the drive 
and were feeling the effects of their strenuous 
initial fight. 

Everyone felt that the Brigade had given a 
good account of itself in the St. Mihiel drive 
and had lived up to the expectations of those 
who had labored so diligently for its success. 
The rewards of the long, weary months of in- 
tensive training had been received and the hopes 
of those who had longed for an opportunity 
to strike the enemy a vigorous blow had ended 
in fruition. Nearly 20,000 rounds of ammuni- 
tion had been fired by the Brigade, which ad- 
vanced twelve kilometers through Limey, 



THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



Page ta'cntv-three 



Flirey, Essey, Euvezin and Bouillonville, and 
into Thiaucourt, Beney and Xammes, with ex- 
ceptionally slight losses. Higher commanders 
had spoken well of the artillery support, and 
the following complimentary letter was received 
by the commanding officer of the 55th Field 
Artillery Brigade, from the 89th Division Com- 
mander : 

My Dear General : 

In accordance with my verbal statement, I want 
to thank you again for the assistance rendered this 
Division during the attack on the St. Mihial salient 
on September 12th. 

I have heard nothing but praise from the officers 
and men of the Division for the way the artillery 
was handled and conducted itself, and want to thank 
you for your cheerful and willing compliance with 
all my wishes. 

Please extend to the men of your command, 
especially Colonel Lea and his regiment, my thanks for 
the valuable service rendered. 

Sincerely yours, 

W. M. Wright, 
Major-Gencral, U. S. A. 

On December 26th, 1918, the Commander- 
in-Chief of the American Expeditionary 
Forces, issued the following in recognition of 
the service performed by the units engaged m 
the St. Mihiel drive: 

G. H. Q. 

American Expeditionary Forces 

GENERAL ORDERS No. 238 

December 26, 1918 

It is with soldierly pride that I record in General 
Orders a tribute to the taking of the St. Mihiel salient 
by the First Army. On September 12, 1918, you 
delivered the first concerted offensive operation of the 
American Expeditionary Forces upon difficult terrain 
against this redoubtable position immovably held for 
four years, which crumpled before your ably executed 
advance. Within twenty- four hours of the commence- 
ment of the attack, the salient had ceased to exist 
and you were threatening Metz. 

Your divisions, which had never been tried in the 
exacting conditions of major offensive operations. 



worthily emulated those of more arduous experience 
and earned then' right to paiticipate in the more dif- 
ficult task to come. Your staff and auxiliary services, 
which labored so untiringly and so enthusiastically, 
deserve equal commendation, and wc are indebted to 
the willing co-operation of veteran French divisions 
and of auxiliary units which the Allied Commanders 
put at our disposal. 

Not only did you straighten a dangerous salient, 
capture 16,000 prisoners and 443 guns and liberate 
240 square miles of French territory, but you demon- 
strated the fitness for battle of a unified American 
Army. 

We appreciate the loyal training and effort of the 
First Army. In the name of our country, I offer 
our hearty and unmeasured thcnks to these splendid 
Americans of the 1st, 4th and 5th Ccrps, and of 
the 1st, 2nd. 4th, 5th. 26th. 42rd, 82nd, 89th and 
90th Divisions, which were engaged, and of the 3rd, 
35th, 78th, 80th and 91st Divisions, which were 
in reserve. 

This order will be read to all organizations at the 
first assembly formation after its receipt. 
John J. Pershing, 

General, Commander-in-Chief. 

Official: 

Robert C. Da\is, 

Adjutant General. 

The Brigade's experience in the St. Mihiel 
drive had disclosed the need of a partial re- 
organization of the staff, and several changes 
were made. Major William H. Beckner, 
1 15th F. A., became Brigade Adjutant, Eieut. 
George A. Gordon was made Intelligence Of- 
ficer, Lieut. John M. Lovejoy was added to 
the staff, and 2nd Lieut. Lee W. Baldwin, 
1 1 5th Field Artillery, was made Headquarters 
Detachment Commander. Major Roberts was 
assigned to the 105th Ammunition Train, and 
Lieuts. Boynton and Monaghan returned to the 
I 14th Field Artillery. A few days later at 
Auzeville, Captain Walter Chandler, I 14th 
Field Artillery, was attached to the Staff as 
Munitions Officer with the additional duty of 
looking after supplies, succeeding 1st Lieut. 



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THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 




•jNETHERLANDS // ^ 

/ /' DUSSEUX3R' 



VERSAILLES 

Scale of Miles 



10 20 30 40.- 50 



The Final Battle Lines on the Western Front 

Where the Armistice Stopped the Victorious Alhes on November 11, 1918 



Philip P. Cole, who was attached to the Bri- 
gade Staff after arrival in the Toul sector, and 
who returned to the 1 1 4th F. A. as Supply 
Officer. 

Meuse-Argonne Campaign 

On September 15th, at Rambucourt, a corps 
order was received directing the Brigade to 
move by night marches to Pierrefitte. On this 
march. Brigade Headquarters were at Pont- 
sur-Meuse on September 16th and 17th, and 
moved to Pierrefitte on the morning of Septem- 
ber 18th, where supplies were received. The 
march was then continued each night until early 
morning of September 23rd when the Bois de 



Brocourt, near Recicourt, northwest of Ver- 
dun, was reached. 

Here extensive preparations were being 
made with all speed for a gigantic American 
offensive on a wide front extending from the 
Forest of the Argonne, inclusive, to the Hills 
of Verdun as far east as the Meuse river. This 
was a position of natural strength for the enemy, 
and had been fortified by him for the purpose 
of making it impregnable. It was the keystone 
of the entire German line, and was defended by 
the flower of the German Army. It protected 
the enemy's main line of communication from 
Metz to Mezieres, and if that line could be 



THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



Page ilPenty-five 



broken his military power was compelled to col- 
lapse. 

The 55th F. A. Brigade accomplished a 
very noteworthy task in fightmg through the St 
Mihiel drive, marching to the Meuse-Argonne 
battlefront, and participating in America's 
greatest contribution to the battle history of the 
World War. 

At first, the Brigade was under the I Ameri- 
can Corps and attached to the 91st American 
Division, and was ordered to relieve certain 
French artillery units in the subsector held by 
that division, but the order was cancelled on 
September 22, and the Brigade was sent into 
position in the vicinity of Avocourt in support 
of the 37th American Division, the center divi- 
sion of the V American Corps, commanded 
by Major General George H. Cameron. That 
corps was the center corps of the First Ameri- 
can Army, and the 37th Division, therefore, 
was in the very center of the attack. On the 
right of the 37th Division was the 79th Amer- 
ican Division and on the left was the 91st 
American Division. Brigade Headquarters 
moved to Recicourt and a Post Command was 
maintained at Verriere Farm until after the at- 
tack began. 

For the opening of the Meuse-Argonne drive 
the organizations of the Brigade were in the 
line south of Avocourt along the northern edge 
of the Foret de Hesse, except the 105th Trench 
Mortar Battery which was in the infantry front 
line at Avocourt. These positions were occu- 
pied only two days before the openmg of the 
drive and the task of delivering three days' sup- 
ply of ammunition and making final plans for 
the attack was an enormous one. Very little 
time was available for careful study of the ter- 
rain or observation of enemy lines and positions. 
A constant rain impeded progress, and visibility 
was at all times poor. There were no good 
roads to the front and traffic was everywhere 



in congestion. The greatest secrecy prevailed 
regarding troop movements, and everything had 
to be done at night. The motor transportation 
of the Brigade was entirely inadequate and the 
animals were almost exhausted, but the enthu- 
siasm of the men and officers continued and the 
fight was entered into with characteristic vigor 
and determination. 

The following French artillery was attached 
to the Brigade : 

2 Battalions of 2 1 1 th Regiment, 75 m-m. 

1 Battalion of 301st Regiment, 75 m-m. 

2 Battalions of 330th Regiment, 155 m-m. 
1 Battalion of 330th Regiment, 280 m-m. 

3 Trench Mortar Batteries. 

The porte battalions of the 75 m-m. regi- 
ments of French artillery were drawn by the 
animals of the 55lh F. A. Brigade into for- 
ward positions at Avocourt where they fired 
steadily for the first three days of the attack, 
using the 1917 model long-range shell on tar- 
gets out of the ordinary range of the 75 m-m. 
gun. 

Also, there was an extraordinary concen- 
tration of corps and army artillery in the Foret 
de Hesse in positions carefully camouflaged 
and many railroad guns were placed in the rear 
for the purpose of firing into the German back 
areas and neutralizing his artillery fire. 

The preparation for the infantry attack be- 
gan at 1 1 :30 o'clock on the night of September 
25th. The roar of the big guns was appalling 
and deafening. There seemed to be a contin- 
uous thunder-storm and the ground shook as 
in an earthquake. The enemy must have been 
overwhelmed by the great lights and Hashes that 
burst over his lines because the heavens reflected 
one glare after another. Those who crossed 
No-Man's Land afterward saw the great effect 
of this fire and of the barrage. 

Mention should be made here of the excel- 
lent work done by the 105th Trench Mortar 




The St. Mihiel Drive 

(I) The ruins of Flirey. (2) Ammunition dump explosion al Royamieux. (3) Bouillionville. (4) Thiaucourl. (5) Where the ammunition 
dump had been. (6) Watching the burning ammunition dump. (7) Headquarters of 80'.K Division and 55th F. A. Brigade under wreclcd bridge 
at Fhrey. (8) The burning of Thiaucourt. 



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Battery in preparing the way for the infantry 
advance. Nearly 1,000 rounds of Newton 
6-inch bombs were fired and the enemy barbed 
wire was torn to shreds. Although this was the 
only firing done by the 105th Trench Mortar 
Battery on the front, credit is due that organi- 
zation for getting its mortars and ammunition 
into trench positions unassisted, and, afterwards 
in aiding in transporting ammunition to the other 
units of the Brigade. 

The infantry went forward at 5 :30 o'clock 
on the morning of September 26th, advancing 
as far as the northern edge of the Bois de Mont- 
faucon, and the 55th F. A. Brigade Post of 
Command then moved to the cross-roads in 
that forest along with the 37th Division Post 
of Command. 

Montfaucon, a German stronghold and the 
observation post where the German Crown 
Prince had constructed a great periscope thirty 
feet high, which enabled him to observe the 
attack of his troops on Verdun in 1916, was 
taken by an envelopment, the 37th Division in- 
fantry going beyond on the left, the 79th Divi- 
sion infantry moving past on the right, and the 
two elements meeting beyond the town. On 
the afternoon of the 26th of September, all the 
artillery in the sector was centered on Mont- 
faucon for fifteen minutes and this assisted in 
clearing the enemy from his defenses and hiding 
places. 

The artillery began to advance before the 
roads across No Man's Land were opened, the 
first battery crossing about 1 :00 o'clock on the 
afternoon of the 26th. The Second battalion 
of the 1 1 4th took position on the southern edge 
of the woods north of Avocourt and did some 
firing that afternoon and night. The First bat- 
talion of the 1 1 4th followed and passed the 
Second battalion of that regiment, spending the 
night in the Bois de Montfaucon. The I 1 3th 
F. A. followed the 1 14th and on the 27th of 



September moved into the northern edge of the 
Bois de Montfaucon and took up positions. 
The 1 1 5th F. A. was almost without service- 
able animals but by combining the horses in the 
regiment one battery was able to cross No 
Man's Land on September 27th and two bat- 
teries went forward on the 28th. The gun 
sections of some of the heavy batteries were 
exchanged later. 

For two days after the opening of the 
Meuse-Argonne fight the roads across No 
Man's Land were almost impassable, and delay 
in moving forward ammunition, food supplies 
and water was the result. Even the ambu- 
lances experienced difficulty in getting to the 
forward dressing stations. Further progress in 
the drive was made exceedingly slow tempo- 
rarily on account of the bad roads, and the 
artillery did not go forward again for two days, 
but during this interim good use was made of 
captured German guns which were turned on 
the enemy and fired vigorously and enthusiasti- 
cally by the American and French artillerymen. 
More than 2,000 rounds of German ammuni- 
tion are known to have been fired by units of 
the 55th F. A. Brigade. 

On September 29th, the light artillery regi- 
ments pressed onward taking up positions on 
either side of the Montfaucon-Epinonville road 
in the neighborhood of Ivoiry and Epinonville. 
The 37th Division was relieved by the 32nd 
Division on October 1st, but the 55th Field 
Artillery Brigade remained in the line until 
October 8th when its place was taken by the 
57th F. A. Brigade, which was the 32nd Divi- 
sion artillery. 

The 55th F. A. Brigade and associated units 
did creditable work in the Meuse-Argonne 
offensive under innumerable difficulties. En- 
tering the fight hurriedly, with troops and horses 
greatly fatigued from long marches, almost im- 
mediately some of the organizations of the Bri- 



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gade found themselves unable to function 
readily. Many horses were killed in action and 
many died in harness from exhaustion, and the 
main desideratum in artillery upon the battle- 
field — the ability to march rapidly and in good 
order and perform with celerity — could not be 
sustained. Brigadier General Shipton was re- 
lieved during the attack by Brigadier General 
Albert S. Fleming, 1 58th F. A. Brigade, and 
reduced to his proper grade in the regular army. 
He was assigned to duty in the training area 
of the S. O. S. 

On October 8th General Flemmg was re- 
lieved of command of the brigade and returned 
to the command of his own unit, which was 
moving up to take part in the great battle. 
Col. Harry S. Berry, commanding officer of the 
1 15th F. A., assumed command as senior regi- 
mental commander until General Kilbreth re- 
ported. 

During the march into Luxemburg, after the 
armistice. Col. Albert L. Cox of the 1 1 3th F. 
A. was m command of the brigade from Dec. 
6th to 12th, 1918. 

Colonel Berry again commanded the brigade 
while it was m billets m the Evron area and m 
the tent area of the forwarding camp at Le 
Mans. 

In the early stages of the Meuse-Argonne 
offensive the artillery for a short time was con- 
fronted with the greatest difficulty in rendering 
the fullest assistance to the infantry, but 
about October 1st, when the roads opened 
and ammunition and supplies began to come 
forward in sufficient quantities, and when 
the war became stabilized, very effective aid 
was given the infantry. Separate attacks 
were planned and executed daily and many 
additional barrages were fired between that 
time and October 8th. Light artillery bat- 
teries accompanied the infantry and altogether 
in the Meuse-Argonne fight the 75 m-m. 



regiments of the Brigade fired about 50,- 

000 rounds of ammunition. Montfaucon, 
Nantillois, Ivoiry, Epinonville, Gesnes, Cier- 
ges, Romagne, Cunel, Hill 240 and most of 
the wooded areas many times came under the 
fire of the 55th F. A. Brigade, which advanced 
about ten kilometers during the offensive. 

Too much cannot be said in praise of the 
prowess of the American Army in the Meuse- 
Argonne campaign. This achievement will 
ever remain a glorious page in American history 
and a source of satisfaction to those who took 
part in it. There the fullest resources of the 
German Army were met. Through the stub- 
bornest resistance of counter-attacks and the 
close pursuit of his slowly receding lines, the 
enemy was forced to retreat and the conflict 
that had terrified the world for four years was 
hastened to a victorious end. 

The Commander-in-Chief of the American 
Expeditionary Forces recorded the battle as 
follows: 

G. H. Q. 

American Expeditionary Forces, France 

December 19, 1918 

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 232 

It is with a sense of gratitude for its splendid ac- 
complishment, which will live through all history, that 

1 record in General Orders a tribute to the victory of 
the First Army in the Meuse-Argonne battle. 

Tested and strengthened by the reduction of the 
St. Mihiel sailent, for more than six weeks you bat- 
tered against the pivot of the enemy line on the western 
front. It was a position of imposing natural strength, 
stretching on both sides of the Meuse River from 
the bitterly contested hills of Verdun to the almost 
impenetrable forest of the Argonne; a position, more- 
over fortified by four years of labor designed to 
render it impregnable ; a position held with the fullest 
resources of the enemy. That position you broke ut- 
terly, and thereby hastened the collapse cf the enemy's 
military power. 

Soldiers of all the divisions engaged under the 
First, Third and Fifth Corps — the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 
5th, 7th, 26th, 28th, 29th, 32nd, 33rd, 35th, 37th, 



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42nd, 77th. 78th, 79th, 80th, 82nd, 89th, 90th and 
9 1 st — you will be long remembered for the stubborn 
persistence of your progress, your storm.ing of obsti- 
nately defended machine-gun nests, your penetration, 
yard by yard, of woods and ravines, your heroic 
resistance in the face of counter-attacks supported by 
powerful artillery fire. For more than a month from 
the initial attack of September 26th you fought your 
way slowly through the Argonne, through the woods 
and over the hills west of the Mouse; you slowly en- 
larged your hold on the Cotes de Meuse to the east; 
end then, on the first of November, your attack forced 
the enemy into flight. Pressing his retreat, you cleared 
the entire left bank of the Meuse south of Sedan, 
and then stormed the heights on the right bank and 
drove him into the plain beyond. 

Your achievement, which is scarcely to be equalled 
in American history, must remain a source of proud 
satisfaction to the troops who participated in the last 
campaign of the war. The American people will re- 
member it as the realization of the hitherto potential 
strength of the American contribution towards the 
cause to which they had sworn allegiance. There 
can be no greater reward for a soldier or for a soldier's 
memory. 

This order will be read to all organizations at the 
first assembly formation after its receipt. 

John J. Pershing, 
General, Commander-in-Chief, 
American Expeditionary Forces. 

Official: 

Robert C. Davis, Adjutant General. 

In THE WOEVRE 

The 55th F. A. Brigade was sent on 
October 8th to the Troyon, or Woevre, sector, 
southeast of Verdun, primarily to rest and be 
re-equipped, but it went into the h'ne there im- 
mediately, relieving the 26th Division Artillery 
and supporting the infantry of the 79th Ameri- 
can Division. The command passed on Octo- 
ber 1 1th and the Brigade went into the 2nd 
French Colonial Army Corps, which was 
functioning under the 2nd American Army. 

Brigadier-General J. W. Kilbreth, Jr., suc- 
ceeded Brigadier-General Fleming in com- 



mand of the Brigade on October 9th, and 1st 
Lieut. Samuel G. Anspach, Jr., 115th Field 
Artillery, was added to the Brigade Staff as 
Intelligence Officer. 1st Lieut. Frank B. 
Evers requested that he be returned to the 
1 14th F. A., and 1st Lieut. John M. Lovejoy 
was made Assistant Operations Officer. 2nd 
Lieuts. Urban E. Bowes and Earl C. Hamil- 
ton, I 13th Field Artillery, were placed on the 
staff as assistants, and 1st Lieut. Horace T. 
Polk, 114th Field Artillery, and 2nd Lieut. 
Lee W. Baldwin became Aides de Camp to 
Brigadier-General Kilbreth. 

The Troyon sector became very active after 
the arrival of the 55th F. A. Brigade, which 
demonstrated again its fighting ability in posi- 
tion warfare on a front with very troublesome 
natural barriers. Nearly 60,000 rounds of 
ammunition were fired in this sector by the 55th 
F. A. Brigade. The Brigade occupied posi- 
tions along the Grande Tranchee de Calonne 
and on the heights and slopes of the Foret de 
Montague overlooking the plains of the 
Woevre, and the infantry lines extended along 
the foothills which were fringed with destroyed 
villages and towns. 

On October 23rd, 1918, the 33rd American 
Division relieved the 79th Division and the 
55th F. A. Brigade was ordered to accompany 
the latter division into the line adjacent to Ver- 
dun, but the order was countermanded because 
the Brigade did not have sufficient transporta- 
tion to move and was therefore kept in position 
in the Troyon sector in support of the 33rd 
Division. A short while afterward the sector 
was widened to a front of almost twelve kilo- 
meters by an extension on the right to include 
a part of the Chaillon sector, and the 2nd 
Colonial Army Corps was relieved by the 1 7th 
French Corps about November 1st, 1918. 

On October 29th, the 135th American F. 
A. Regiment, 75 m-m, and the First and Third 




Trailing the Hun Through the Argonne 

(1) Mopping up m the forest. (2) Machine gun nests concealed in the trees. (3) Infantry moving up with aid of French camions. (4) One 
of the ruined Milages. (5) Shelters at Monlfaucon. (6) Repairing the road across old no-man's land. (7) Artillery observation post on heights 
at Montfaucon. (8) The German shell that struck this wagon killed three of our men. (9) Gen. Fleming and Major Bulwinkle (of the 113th 
F. A.). (10) Effect of fire by 115th F. A. at Romagne. (11) Breastplates used by German machine gunners. (12) Artillery caisson in a 
German trap. (13) Montfaucon. (14) Resting after the battle. (15) A typical Argonne village. 



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battalions of the 136tli F. A. Regiment, 155 
m-m, were attached to the 33ixl Division and 
placed under command of Brigadier-General 
Kilbreth. A new arrangement for tactical 
command was made by dividing the artillery 
into three groupings. The north grouping, 
commanded by Colonel Luke Lea, consisted of 
the I 14th F. A. and the First battalion of the 
1 13th F. A., supporting the 65th Infantry Bri- 
gade. The second grouping was commanded 
by Colonel D. J. Hard, 135th F. A., and con- 
sisted of the 1 35th F. A. Regiment and the 
Second battalion of the I 13th F. A., support- 
ing the 66th Infantry Brigade. The heavy 
grouping, commanded by Colonel Harry S. 
Berry, consisted of the I 1 5th F. A. and the 
First and Third battalions of the 1 36th F. A. 
under Colonel Paul L. Mitchell, supporting 
the entire sector. 

The line of outposts was from two to four 
kilometers in front of the main line of resistance 
which extended along the military crest of the 
Cotes de Meuse, and the plan of artillery de- 
fense contemplated the protection of each in- 
fantry outpost support with density of fire of 
one round per minute per 12 meters. Full 
plans were made for O. C. P. and reprisal 
fire, and a scheme of defense against tanks was 
developed by which all routes of approach by 
tanks would be covered by enfilade fire. 
Several adjustments were made by aeroplanes. 

Considerable harassing fire was done at night 
through schedules arranged by the co-operation 
of the Intelligence and Operations departments, 
and roving guns down on the plains were used 
with a high degree of success. For a time a 
few batteries were kept on the plains. 

The work of the Intelligence section of the 
Brigade Staff was expanded to a degree not 
theretofore attained and aided materially in 
the successful operations of the Brigade in the 
Troyon sector. Communication was establish- 



ed with the corps flash and sound ranging sec- 
tions and these elements were employed to ad- 
vantage. Liaison was maintained very 
efficiently with all units in the sector and the 
systems of handling munitions and supplies were 
reorganized and perfected. 

In the defense of the sector a number of 
barrages were called for, the more important 
ones being as follows: 

Saulx, October 24th. 
Wadonville, October 24th. 
Fresnes, November 7th and 9th. 
Saulx, November 10th. 
Champion, November 10th. 
Marcheville, November 10th. 

These barrages were very effective, and in 
two cases fell directly on the line of the enemy's 
deployment, causing many casualties. On 
these occasions the barrages were called for 
when the enemy was counter-attacking and he 
was caught on the barrage line and suffered 
heavy losses. Many of the enemy who had 
crossed the line were taken prisoners, and there- 
after, the Germans were very cautious in their 
counter-attacks. It was a source of consider- 
able satisfaction to the artillerymen, particu- 
larly the cannoneers to know that their barrages 
fell on the spot and minute most desired. 

During the early part of November, a 
Second American Army offensive on a large 
scale was in preparation, and Conflans was to 
be the objective of the 33rd Division. 

There was considerable discussion also con- 
cerning the probability of the enemy's with- 
drawal to the fortifications of Metz, in the 
event the Allies broke the German lines of com- 
munication from Sedan to Metz, and a com- 
plete plan to be used in this contingency was 
prepared and issued. To facilitate the execu- 
tion of the contemplated offensive on Conflans, 
a number of attacks were carried out dex- 



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HOLLAND 



Marienberg 



piVISlONi ^ 




The American Army on the Rhine 



teriously by the 33rcl Division with carefully 
planned artillery support. 

The first was a raid on Chateau d' Aulnois 
on November 7th, with the 65th Infantry Bri- 
gade supported by Batteries A, B and C, of 
the l!3th F. A., the entire 114th F. A. ex- 
cept Battery D, and Batteries A, D, E and F, 
of the 1 15th F. A., all under the command of 
Colonel Lea. The mission involved a prelimi- 
nary bombardment, box barrage, rolling bar- 
rage, smoke screen and covering fire. The 
corps artillery was called on for neutralization 
and interdiction fire. 



On November 8th a raid was conducted on 
St. Hilaire by the 66th Infantry Brigade. The 
following artillery under Colonel Hard assisted 
and performed a mission involving a box bar- 
rage, rolling barrage, smoke screen, and cover- 
ing fire: 

Batteries D, E and F, II 3th F. A. 

135th F. A. Regiment. 

Batteries A, B, C and E, I 15th F. A. 

Batteries E and F, 136th F. A. 

A second attack was made on St. Hilaire on 
November 9th with support by the heavy artil- 



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lery and one battery of light artillery, all under 
command of Colonel Berry. 

The Bois de Harville was also attacked on 
the morning of November 9th by the 66th In- 
fantry Brigade with the 1 15th F. A., 135th F. 
A., and 136th F. A. furnishing very slight bar- 
rage and heavy covering fire. This was a dar- 
ing attack on the part of the infantry against 
a strongly held woods, and the psychological 
effect on the enemy was such that all the gar- 
rison with the exception of one officer and a 
few soldiers fled and these were taken prisoners. 

The most pretentious and decisive of these 
attacks was that on Marcheville, at daybreak 
on November 10th. This was a well fortified 
point and was the keystone of Bretelle position 
connecting Mihiel I and II. The point had 
been a bitterly contested one ever since the be- 
ginning of the St. Mihiel drive and had changed 
hands many times. The ground just in front of 
Marcheville was higher than the surrounding 
terrain and afforded excellent positions for 
flanking machine guns which protected either 
side of the German line. The artillery mis- 
sion involved a box barrage, rolling barrage, 
concentrations, covering fire, and neutralization 
fire. The 65th Infantry Brigade led the attack 
and the 113th F. A. except Battery B, the 
1 14th F. A., except Battery D, and Batterier, 
A, B, C and E, of the 1 1 5th F. A., all under 
command of Colonel Lea carried out the artil- 
lery program, with the corps artillery furnishing 
the neutralization fire. 

The results of this attack are best expressed 
by the I 7th French Corps in a bulletin pub- 
lished on November 1 0th, of which the follow- 
ing is an extract : 

The capture of Marcheville and of the Harville 
wood places in our hands two important elements of 
the principal line of resistance of the enemy (Pinthe- 
ville, Riaville, Marcheville. Harville and Harville 
Wood). Each of the two points was held by one 
battalion. 



In provision for our attack the enemy had reinforced 
the zone of protection by means of some of the troops 
fcvmnig the reserve of the regiment. 

Owing to the precision of the American artillery 
fire, it was impossible for most of the enemy to make 
use of their arms in good time. Several groups were 
overpowered in their shelters. The whole garrison of 
Marcheville has been killed or captured (93 prisoners 
including 6 officers). 

On November 1 0th, it was thought that the 
enem.y was withdrawing from the sector and the 
plan of conduct in case of withdrawal of the 
enemy was put into effect, and during the night 
of November 1 0th- 1 I th, the 1 1 4th F. A. and 
the First battalion of the 1 1 5th F. A. moved 
down on the plains of the Woevre in support 
of the 65th Infantry Brigade, but the move- 
ment had not proceeded any distance before the 
Armistice was signed and hostilities ceased. 
The Allies received orders in the sector to cease 
firing at 8:00 o'clock on the morning of Nov- 
ember 11th, but the enemy fired continually 
until I 1 :00 o'clock, the last rounds being 
mustard gas. 

Immediately after the Armistice the follow- 
ing letter was received by the Artillery Brigade 
Commander from Brigadier-General Edward 
L. King, commanding the 65th Infantry Bri- 

France, 16th November, 1918. 

From: Commanding General 65th Infantry Bri- 
gade. 

To: Commanding General, 55th Artillery Bri- 
gade. 

Subject: Co-operation of Artillery. 

1 . Now that active operations in this sector are 
temporarily suspended, I desire to express to you, on 
behalf of myself and the officers and enlisted men of 
the 65th Infantry Brigade, appreciation of your cheer- 
ful and effective co-operation in all the work which you 
carried out while in this sub-sector. 

2. Everyone of your command has responded 
promptly to all demands, and all our people developed 
the utmost confidence in your ability. 

Edward L. King, 

Brigadier-General U. S. A. 




In the Woevre Sector 

(I) Whal is left of St. Remy. (2) Brig. Gen. King, of 65th Brigade al his headquarters at Mouilly. (3) German signs at St. Maurice. 
(4) Equipment abandoned by the Germans. (5) German Laager at Deuxnouds. (6) Airplane view of Troyon. (7) German dug-out used by 
llSlh F. A. in the Troyon sector. (8) Red Cross headquarters al Troyon. (9) American tractor. 



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The following extract from a note written 
by Brigadier-General King to Brigadier-Gen- 
eral Kilbreth is also published : 

Just learned today that the barrage which your 
people put down in front of Marchevilie during the 
1 0th of November, when the Boche counter-attacked, 
had a wonderful effect. One officer told me that he 
saw two machine guns knocked to pieces, and other 
men and officers say that the effect on the Bochc was 
splendid. 

After the Armistice 

After the signing of the Armistice the Bri- 
gade passed with the 33rd Division into the 
IX American Corps. About 1 ,200 animals 
were received for the light regiments and the 
1 1 5th F. A. was partially motorized. It was 
understood that the Brigade would go forward 
with the Army of Occupation immediately 
after the signing of the Armistice, but these 
orders were cancelled and the Brigade remain- 
ed in the Troyon sector until December 6th. 

At this time Brigadier-General Kilbreth was 
ordered to General Headquarters for special 
duty in the reorganization of the American 
artillery. The Brigade had improved wonder- 
fully under General Kilbreth's administration 
and was in splendid condition at the time of 
the signing of the Armistice. Brigadier-Gen- 
eral Kilbreth was succeeded by Brigadier- 
General Oliver L. Spaulding, Jr. 

The Brigade went forward on December 
6th with the 33rd Division to the German 
border via Conflans, Spincourt, Longuyon, and 
Longwy (France), Esch-sur-Alzette (Grand 
Duchy of Luxemburg) to Remich, passing 
under the command of the VII American 
Corps, Third Army, on December 1 2th. This 
journey was accomplished speedily and with- 
out incident save the difficulty of keeping in 
touch with the base of supply by reason of the 
general shortage of motor transportation, but 
this inconvenience was compensated for by the 
fact that the Brigade was permitted to view 



and set foot on German soil, and realize its 
greatest hope of seeing France free of the Huns 
and the menace to America removed. 

On December 16th, in General Orders No. 
1 50, Headquarters 33rd Division, the follow- 
ing letter from the Commanding General, 2nd 
Army, in appreciation of the 33rcl Division's 
work in the Troyon sector was published: 

HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY 

France, 1 2th December, 1918 
From: Commanding General, 2nd Army, 
To: Commanding General, 33rd Division, Ameri- 
can E. F. 
Subject: Activity of the 33rd Division prior to 
Armistice. 

1. Upon the transfer of the 33rd Division from 
the 2nd to the 3rd American Army, I desire to ex- 
press to you my gratification at the vigorous and suc- 
cessful activities of your division during the period of 
active operations preceding the Armistice. 

2. The 33rd Division, although occupying a 
broad front was called upon to advance toward Con- 
flans, and was engaged in the performance of this 
mission at the time that hostilities ceased. 

3. On November 6th to 7':h, when accurate in- 
formation of the enemy's intentions was greatly desired, 
raiding parties from your division penetrated to 
Chateau d' Aulnois and captured 2 1 prisoners, in- 
cluding one officer. On November 7[h to Slh your 
reconnaissance patrols entered Bois d' Harville and 
St. Hilaire and brought back 8 prisoners. On Novem- 
ber 9th to 1 0th you drove the enemy from the towns 
of St. Hilaire and Marchevilie, and, at the time of 
the cessation of hostilities, your division had occupied 
these towns as well as the towns of Butgneville and 
Riaville. 

4. The conduct of the 33rd Division exemplified 
its ability to execute promptly and thoroughly the 
tasks which were given to it. There was shown on the 
part of both officers and men, an efficiency and fight- 
ing spirit which are highly commendable. 

R. L. BULLARD, 
Lieutenant-General, U. S. A. 

On December 1 7th, plans for the occupa- 
tion of Germany having been altered, the 33rd 
Division moved out of the Army of Occupa- 



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lion to the area north of Luxemburg City, re- 
turned to the Second Army, and went into the 
VI American Corps. The section around 
Mersch, Duchy of Luxemburg, was desig- 
nated for occupation by the 55th F. A. Bri- 
gade, which remained there until January 8th, 
1919, when orders were received directing the 
Brigade to march to the Toul sector in France, 
where its property would be turned in and 
where the personnel would entrain to ]oin the 
30th Division. The 105th Trench Mortar Bat- 
tery had been detached from the Brigade at 
Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxemburg, and had started 
on its journey home on December 12th. 

The Brigade entrained on January 19th, 
1919, at Trondes, for Evron, Mayenne, 
France, and after a long delay at the starting 
point, the journey was begun. On January 
21st, the train carrying Brigade Headquarters, 
114th Field Artillery, and a section of the 
105th Ammunition Train suffered a collision 
near Manois, Haute-Marne, in which 22 men 
were killed and about 3 injured. A few hours 
later, when the cars that were not damaged 
in the collision were being pulled from the 
wreckage, several of them became uncoupled 
and rolled back into the debris, injuring many 
more men. It took seven days and nights for 
this train to go from Trondes to Evron, a trip 
of about 250 miles, and the men endured the 
hardships of accidents, overcrowded box cars, 
lack of heat, and cold rations with great pa- 
tience. 

On the departure of the Brigade from the 
Toul area, Brigadier-Genera' Spaulding was 
sent to the 165th F. A. Brigade in the 3rd 
Army, and Colonel R. S. Abernethy was 
placed in command at Evron. The Brigade 
here returned to the 30th Division and went into 
the II American Corps on January 26th. Firsc 
Lieut. Avery Robinson was transferred from 



the 3rd F. A. Brigade and added to the Bri- 
gade Staff at Evron. 

At this time a number of the officers of the 
brigade staff were transferred to the 3rd Divi- 
sion, in the Army of Occupation. Lieut. 
Jacques Popelin and Adjutant Georges Bussy, 
French officers, were relieved, their duties 
having been fulfilled very efficiently. They 
are entitled to the thanks of the Brigade 
for their able assistance at all times. Lieut. 
Popelin had been with the Brigade longer than 
any officer who was assigned to the Staff and 
had contributed immeasurably to the training 
of the various units. He was one of the in- 
structors and critics throughout the firing 
course on the artillery target range near Camp 
Sevier, and was indefatigable m his efforts to 
make the Brigade the efficient fighting organi- 
zation that it proved to be. The officers and 
men of the entire Brigade are grateful to Lieut. 
Popelin and will remember him very pleasantly 
indeed. 

The Brigade was inspected and reviewed on 
January 30th, 1919, at Evron by General 
Pershing, who, at the conclusion of the cer- 
emonies, thanked the officers and men for the 
good work which the Brigade had done since 
arriving in France. 

On February 6th the Brigade moved into 
the Forwarding Camp of the American Em- 
barkation Center at Le Mans, and was there 
placed in the Tent Area for delousing purposes. 
On February 14th, Brigadier-General Kilbreth 
returned to the Brigade, relieving Colonel 
Abernethy, who went to the 62nd F. A. Bri- 
gade. 

A quarantine was placed on the Brigade on 
account of the appearance of influenza, but the 
ban was raised on Februa-y 1 7th and all units 
of the Division wei-e toge'h'^r fo" the first time 
since arriving in Europe. It was a source of 
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other units of the division, which had been en- 
gaged with the British forces, had made such a 
splendid record on the battlefields of Nor- 
mandy, Picardy and Belgium. 

Under date of February 19th, 1919, Gen- 
eral Pershing wrote Major-General Edward 
M. Lewis, commanding the 30th Division, com- 
plimenting the officers and men on the review 
and inspection by the Commander-in-Chief and 
congratulating the infantry units on the valu- 
able service rendered the Allied cause during 
the war. At the end of this letter General 
Pershing added : 

I inspected the artillery Brigade of the Division 
later, and found the same high standard of personnel 
that marks the rest of the division. 

The following letter was received at Le 
Mans by Brigadier-General Kilbreth from 
Major-General Edward M. Lewis, Command- 
ing the 30th Division: 

HEADQUARTERS 30TH DIVISION 
American Expeditionary Forces 

France, March 2nd, 1919 
Front: Major-General E. M. Lewis, Commandmg 

30th Division. 
To: Commanding General, 55th F. A. Brigade. 
Subject: Service of the 55th F. A. Brigade. 

1 . I have the deepest satisfaction in communicat- 
ing to you my appreciation of and admiration for the 
work accomplished by the 55th F. A. Brigade dur- 
ing the period of its active operations, which I request 
that you communicate to the organizations of your 
command. 

2. My knowledge of the work done is based upon 
reports and comments from sources other than personal 
observation. The information thus obtained is all of 
the most commendable nature, beginning with your 
training period and extending through the operations 
of the Brigade. In the course of these operations it 
fought under many divisions and corps, and was 
actively engaged from August 27th to November 
11th, except for a period of eleven days, when it 
was marching from one sector to another. 

3. The 30th Division established an enviable rec- 



ord in service with the British and the record of 
its Artillery, detached to other fronts, is such as to 
admit it to full fellowship. 

4. May you return home with a just feeling of 
pride and satisfaction in service well performed and 
receive upon arrival the tribute of a grateful people 
that is your just due. 

E. M. Lewis, 
Major-General, U. S. A. 

On March 4, the units of the Brigade be- 
gan to move from Le Mans to St. Nazaire, the 
port of embarkation, and on March 6th, the 
1 13th F. A. Regiment sailed on the U. S. S. 
"Santa Theresa" for Newport News, Va., 
landing there on March 19th. The 1 14th F. 
A. Regiment, Brigade Headquarters, and Bat- 
tery A, 1 15th F. A., left St. Nazaire on the 
U. S. S. "Finland" on March 10th, and 
arrived at Newport News on March 23rd. 
The 105 th Ammunition Train and the 115th 
F. A. Regiment, except Battery A, departed 
from St. Nazaire on the Holland ship, "Queen 
of the Netherlands," on March 13th, and 
arrived at Charleston, S. C, on March 27th. 

Great receptions awaited the victorious 
troops m their home states. The I 13th F. A. 
Regiment spent the day in Raleigh, North Car- 
olina, and was given a tremendous ovation. 
The I 1 4th Field Artillery paraded in Knox- 
ville, Nashville and Chattanooga, and throngs 
of people lined the streets to greet Colonel 
Lea's warriors. The 1 1 5th paraded in Knox- 
ville, Nashville, Memphis and Chattanooga, 
before thousands of grateful hearts, and the 
105th Ammunition Train was accorded a 
great welcome throughout South Carolina. 

The 1 13th F. A. Regiment and the 105th 
Ammunition Train were mustered out of the 
service at Camp Jackson, Columbia, South 
Carolina, the Brigade Headquarters, and the 
114th and 115th F. A. Regiments were de- 
mobilized at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the 
soldiers returning to their homes to resume the 



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civil callings which they had put aside eighteen 
months before to take up the profession of arms. 
The 55th F. A. Brigade was on the firing 
line from August 27th, 1918, until the Armis- 
tice, except eleven days, when it was marching 
from sector to sector. Although at the tre- 
mendous disadvantage of being away from its 
own division throughout its service in France 
and therefore being called on to fight under 
many divisions and corps, with whose methods 
and men it was unacquainted, the 55th F. A. 
Brigade acquired a reputation of executing all 
its missions punctually, fearlessly and effec- 
tively. Of their own free will, the men and 



officers left our prosperous and happy country 
and crossed the sea at great peril to contend 
with the forces of freedom and civilization 
against the brutal power of oppression and bar- 
barity; they accepted the hardships of war and 
the violence of battle, and many made the 
supreme sacrifice for the noblest cause — liberty 
of the weak as well as the strong. Their 
families and friends well may be proud of their 
achievements, and those soldiers who return to 
their homes and to peaceful pursuits go with 
the solemn pride of a privilege accepted, a duty 
well done, and a lasting contribution toward 
the unification of human affairs. 



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Brigade Headquarters 



FIFTY-FIFTH FIELD ARTILLERY 
BRIGADE STAFF 
November 11, 1918 

J. W. Kilbreth, Jr., Brigadier-General, Com- 
manding. 

Major William H. Beckner. Brigade Adjutant. 

Captain Arthur C. Fitzhugh, Communications 
Officer. 

Captain Willis T. Stewart, Operations Officer. 

Captain Walter Chandler, Munitions Officer. 

First Lieut. Samuel G. Anspach, Jr., Intelligence 
Officer. 

First Lieut. John M. Lovejoy, Assistant Opera- 
tions Officer. 

First Lieut. Horace T. Polk. Aide-de-Camp. 

Second Lieut. Lee W. Baldwin, Aide-de-Camp. 

Second Lieut. Urban E. Bowes, Personnel 
Adjutant. 

Second Lieut. Earl C. Hamilton, Assistant Intel- 
ligence Officer. 

Second Lieut. William H. Cantrell, Radio Officer. 

First Lieut. Jacques Popelin, French Liaison 
Officer. 

Adjutant Georges Bussy, French Interpreter. 

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ROSTER OF HEAQUARTERS DETACH- 
MENT 
55th Field Artillery Brigade 

SERGEANT MAJOR 

Tricc. Charles W Nashville. Tenn. 

FIRST SERGEANT 

McMuRRAY. Frank E Nashville. Tenn. 

MESS SERGEANT 

Threadcill. Lacy L Wadesboro. N. C. 

MASTER GUNNER 

Hansen, Harry P. R Racine, Wis. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 

RlCE, Bernard Nashville, Tenn. 

CHIEF SIGNAL SERGEANT 
Morton, James C Address Unknown 

SERGEANTS 

Clarke, James E Rnoxville. Tenn. 

Stamps. William E Address Unknown 

CORPORALS 

Beisincer, Thomas N Jersey City, N. J. 

Davis, Franklin G Mooresville. N. C. 

MiNNis, Terry W Knoxvillc, Tenn. 



Reese. Marion M Dothan, Ala. 

SlMONTON, Joseph W., Jr Memphis, Tenn. 

Smith, Coy R Columbia. Tenn. 

Thompson, Joseph H Greenville. Va. 

Turner, WiLUAM S Memphis, Tenn. 

COOKS 

Grimes, Carl E Alhol, Mass. 

HoEscHULTE, Frank A St. Louis, Mo. 

Snowden, John I" Arlington. Tenn. 

White, George W Address Unknown 

HORSESHOER 

CoDClLL, LeanDER P Knoxville. Tenn. 

MECHANIC 

Thompson. William R Omaha, Neb. 

WAGGONERS 

Fallon. Edwaru J New York, N. Y. 

Hope, William H Memphis, Tenn. 

SADDLER 

Dickson, Samuel W Spokane, Wash. 

BUGLER 

MooRES. Ross Nashville. Tenn. 

PRIVATES. FIRST CLASS 

Blaney. Harry B Coaldale, Pa. 

Brown, Jason B Richf arm, Ind. 

Burrows. John W Memphis, Tenn. 

Cheney, Paul M Lawrence, Mass. 

Hayes, John B Nashville, Tenn. 

Heim. William R Kensington. Kan. 

Hubbard, Scott L Bowling Green, Ohio 

Hyatt. James B Morristown, Tenn. 

LovELL. William L Nashville, Tenn. 

Lausiers. Joseph W Address Unknown 

Maouire, Felix J Philadelphia, Pa. 

McLean, Frank R Nashville, Tenn. 

McGehee, Carl Address Unknown 

Otterness, Harold Address Unknown 

Prince, James E Novinger, Col. 

Pilling, George S Nashville, Tenn. 

Schwartz, Morris New York, N. Y. 

Thuett, Lewie Palmyra, 111. 

Waldie, John C Oregon, 111. 

Wherry, Priestly E Hendersonville, Tenn. 

PRIVATES 

Benjamin, Frederick E New Haven. Conn. 

Brault. Emilien Winooska, Vl. 

Erickson, Arthur Chicago, III. 

Erickson, Axel Rochester, Ind. 

Jewell, John F Springfield, Ky. 

Koonce, Charles P Memphis. Tenn. 

Labarre. Joe a Athol, Mass. 

Ledrick, William P Conway, Ark. 

Miller. Ralph A Steelton. Pa. 

Owen, Leon Address Unknown 

Parish. Dextes F Jackson, Tenn. 



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SwANSoN, Percy H Durham, N. C. 

Shaw, Frank L Address Unknown 

Pickett, Jay H Memphis, Tenn. 

Thuett, Albert Palmyra, III. 

Welker, Thomas E Clarksville, Tenn. 

Men Transferred From This Orgaization 

Transferred to — 

Newman, Oscar E., Isl Sgl 1 14ih F. A. 

Bales, Henry L., Reg. Sgl.-Maj 114lh F. A. as Private 

Stamps, William E.. Sup. Sgt 1 65th F. A. Brigade 

Decnan, Michael J.. Ord. Sgt 67th F. A. Brigade 

FowLKEs, William A., Sig. Sgt 1 1 3th F. A. as Private 

Philips, Roll H., Corp 1 14th F. A. as Private 

Hart, Roy, Corp 1 14lh F. A. as Private 

Whitaker, Arthur P., Corp Saumur Training School 

White, George W., Cook 1 15th F. A. as Private 

Lapham, Arthur L., Cook 1 14lh F. A. as Private 

Williams, James O., Ch. Mech General Shiplon 

Powers, Charles J., Wag. ..Killed at Camp Coeiquidan. 

France, by wagon turning over on him. 
Dempsey, Clarence A., Sd'lr...Base Hosp. Savney. France 

Baucus, William F.. Pvt. Ic 67ih F. A. Brigade 

Martin, Frank L.. Pvt. Ic 1 13th F. A. as Private 

Cecil, Dennis L., Pvt n5ih F. A. 

CoYLE, Jessie F., PvI Base Hospital. Liverpool, England 

Crocket, West B., Pvt 1 15th F. A. 

Johnson, Allen P., Pvt 1 1 4th F. A. 

Jones, Linwood L., Pvt 1 1 3th F. A. 

Shaw, Frank L., Pvt 115th F. A. 

Slater, Frank, Pvt Base Hospital 

Men Transferred to This Organization 

TraniferreJ From — 

Barker, William P., Pvt 1 14th F. A. 

Benjamin, Fredrick E., Pvt Replacement Camp 

Blaney, Harry B., Pvt. Ic Replacement Camp 

Brown, Jason B., Pvt. Ic Replacement Camp 

Burrows, John W., Pvt. Ic Battery B, 1 15th F. A. 

Brault, Emilien, Pvt Replacement Camp 

Cheney, Paul M., Pvt. Ic Replacement Camp 

Fallon, Edward J., Wag Replacement Camp 

Grimes, Carl E., Cook Replacement Camp 

Hyatt, James B., PvI. Ic Battery C, 1 14th F. A. 

Heim, William R., Pvt. Ic 105th Ammunition Train 

Hope, William H., Wag Battery B, 1 15ih F. A. 

Labarre, Joe A., Pvt Replacement Camp 



Ledrick, William P., Pvt Replacement Camp 

Minnis, Terry W.. Corp Battery C, 114th F. A. 

Miller, Ralph A., Pvt. Ic Replacement Camp 

Parish, Dexter F., Pvt. Ic Battery E, 115th F. A. 

Pickett, Jay H., Pvt. 1 c Battery G. 1 1 5th F. A. 

SiMONTON, Joseph W., Corp Battery B, 1 15th F. A. 

Schwartz, Morriss, Pvt. lc...Firt Anti-Air Craft Battalion 

Smith, Coy R., Corp Battery E, I I4ih F. A. 

SwANSON, Percy H., Pvt Battery C, 1 13th F. A. 

Shea, Thomas P., Pvt Battery E, 1 1 5th F. A. 

Trigg, Charles W., Reg. Sgt.-Maj.. .Hqrs. Co., 115th F. A. 
Thuett, Albert, Pvt. Ic. .. .Headquarters Co., 115th F. A. 

Thuett, Lewie, Pvt. Ic Battery A, 1 14th F. A. 

Waldie, John C, Pvt. Ic Replacement Camp 

Welker, Thomas E., Pvt. Ic Battery F, 1 1 5th F. A. 

BosHWlTZ, AvROME H., Pvt Battery E, 1 15th F. A. 

Erickson, Axel, Pvt Headquarters Co., 1 15th F. A. 

Died From Injuries 

Powers, Charles Jerome, Wagoner, injured by wagon turn- 
ing over with him and falling on him, fracturing his skull, on 
August I, 1918. Died at Base Hospital No. 15, Camp de 
Coetquidan, France, on August 4, 1918, and buried in ceme- 
tery there on following Sunday. Home address, Memphis, 
Tennessee. 

No men of this detachment were killed, wounded or gassed 
in action. 

The following members of Headquarters Detachment, 55th 
F. A. Brigade, went to the Third Officers' Training Camp at 
Leon Springs, Texas: 

Regimental Sergeant-Major Henry Bales. 

First Sergeant Oscar E. Newman. 

Corporal Franklin G. Davis. 

Corporal Roll H. Phillips. 

None of these men received commissions. 

The following men were sent to Saumur Artillery School 
on October 1, 1918, and completed the course of instruction 
there after the signing of the armistice, but were not given com- 
missions, because of War Department order: 

Corporal Arthur P. Whitaker. 

Private Arthur Erickson. 

Sergeant-Major Thomas D. Barry was commissioned Cap- 
tain in the Quartermaster Corps, and attached to the Shipping 
Board, New York City, for duty April 13, 1918. 

Sergeant William H. Cantrell was promoted from ranks 
to grade of Second Lieutenant on March 11, 1918, and be- 
came radio officer. 




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The 105th Ammunition Train 



Prior to April, 1915, the National Guard of 
South Carolina consisted of a Brigade of three Regi- 
ments of Infantry, a Battalion of Coast Artillery, and 
a Battalion of Naval Militia. 

In the early part of 1915 the Governor of the State 
of South Carolina, concluding that the appropriations 
made by the Federal and State governments for the 
National Guard were not sufficient to support so many 
troops, disbanded the Brigade of Infantry, and re- 
organized the Infantry under the service with two 
regiments, the First Regiment being made up of com- 
panies from the northern part of the State, and the 
Second Regiment being made up of companies from 
the central and southern parts of the State. 

Upon the reorganization named, Colonel Holmes 
B. Springs, of Georgetown, S. C, was elected Colonel 
of the Second Infantry, with Majors Silcox, Marchant 
and Bradford as the Battalion Commanders. There 
was no Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment. How- 
ever, when the National Guard was called into the 
Federal service and sent to the Me.xican border in 
1916, Captain Jas. B. Allison, of '^'ork. S. C, an 
officer in the Regular Army, was appointed and com- 



missioned by the Governor of South Carolina to be 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second Infantry. The regi- 
ment with this personnel went to the border and served 
there until the spring of 1917, when it was mustered 
out of the Federal service, and Colonel Allison was, 
with the command, mustered out and returned to his 
grade in the Regular Army. 

On the 25th of July, 1917, the President called 
the National Guard of the United States into the 
Federal service, and, in response to this call, the Sec- 
ond Infantry of South Carolina, with Colonel Springs 
in command, and Majors Silcox, Marchant and Brad- 
ford as Battalion Commanders, responded to the call. 
In the course of the organization of the army, this 
regiment was assigned to and became a part of the 
Thirtieth Division, and, in the leorganization of the 
division to correspond to the tables or organization tor 
an Infantry Division, the first two battalions of the 
Second Infantry were constituted the Ammunition 
Train of the Thirtieth Division, and the Third Bat- 
talion became a part of the Depot Brigade of the 
division. In the meantime the Governor of South 
Carolina, on August 3d, had appointed William W. 



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Lewis, of York, S. C, as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
Second South Carolina Infantry, and on August 5, 
1917, the President duly commissioned him as Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel of Infantry, National Guard of South 
Carolina, in the service of the United States. Upon 
his joining the division and reporting for duty, he was 
assigned to command the Ammunition Train. At that 
time the Field and Staff of the Ammunition Train 
was composed of the following officers: 

Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. W. Lewis, Commandmg. 
Captain H. L. Hariee, Train Supply Officer. 
Major A. H. Silcox, Commandmg the Motor Bat- 
talion, with First Lieutenant W. H. Cogswell, Jr., 
as Adjutant. 

Major T. E. Marchant, Commanding the Horsed 
Battalion, with First Lieutenant John A. Rice as 
Adjutant. 

On the 26th of September, 1917, the Ammunition 
Train, which had been at Camp Jackson, was moved 
to Camp Sevier, and commenced its training there 
with the remainder of the Thirtieth Division. The 
[ables of organization then in existence provided that 
one battalion of the Train should be motorized with 
a complement of ammunition trucks, repair trucks, 
supply trucks and like impedimenta. The Second 
Battalion was composed of horse-drawn vehicles, con- 
sisting of artillery caissons, small arms ammunition 
wagons, with the necessary complement of escort 
wagons. 

It was some time before the train was given any 
of its equipment, and the time was taken up in drilling 
the men in intensive infantry drill for disciplinary pur- 
poses. Immediately upon the formation of the Train, 
requisition was placed for the necessary complement 
of trucks, caissons, wagons, etc., but information was 
received that the motor transportation would not be 
furnished the Train until it had reached the port of 
embarkation. The Train Commander, upon receipt 
of this information, addressed a communication to the 
Division Commander, stating that the Ammunition 
Train was composed of men who had been in the 
infantry service, and that to teach those men to handle 
trucks without having the trucks themselves to train 
them with, was a physical impossibility, and that the 
Train would be utterly handicapped in functioning 
when it went overseas unless they were furnished with 
trucks with which to train, and he urged the Division 
Commander to urge upon Washington the necessity 



of furnishing the Train with at least part of its com- 
plement of trucks. In a short time twenty-four trucks 
were furnished to the Train, and the Motor Battalion 
was at once set to work learning the mechanism of 
the truck, the care of it, methods of repairing and 
truck drill. 

In the fall of 1917 the War Department made a 
ruling that for purposes of instruction the Ammunition 
Train was under the Divisional Artillery Commander, 
and, upon receipt of this information General G. G. 
Gatley, who commanded the Artillery Brigade of the 
Division, immediately started the officers of the Train 
in the course of Instruction in Artillery. In the mean- 
time the Horsed Battalion had received its complement 
of horses and mules, and the Wagon Company its 
complement of small arms ammunition wagons, and 
instruction was given in equitation, the care and hand- 
ling of horses in the Horsed Battalion. This instruc- 
tion continued without interruption except in so far as 
the severe weather of the winter prevented, until May, 
1918, when orders were given for the Train to pre- 
pare to go overseas. In the meantime the composi- 
tion of the Train had been considerably changed by 
new tables of organization, so that at the time the 
Train was ready to leave for foreign service, it con- 
sisted of the following: 

The Train Headquarters and Headquarters De- 
tachments. 

Motor Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters 
Detachment, with four companies, each company con- 
sisting of three officers and one hundred and forty- 
six men. 

Horsed Battalion, consisting of Horsed Battalion 
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment. 

Two Caisson Companies of three officers each and 
one hundred and ninety-one men. 

The Wagon Company, consisting of ihree officers 
and one hundred and fifty-three men. 

The Sanitary Detachment, consisting of three of- 
ficers and twenty-nine men. 

The Ordnance Detachment, consisting of one of- 
ficer and twenty-three men. 

The Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, consisting of 
three officers and forty-five men. 

The Veterinary Detachment, consisting of one of- 
ficer and three men. 

The total number of officers in the Train aggre- 
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and ninety-five, making in all thirteen hundred and 
thirty-two officers and men. In addition thereto, the 
tables called for one hundred and fifty-eight riding 
horses, two hundred and seventy-six draught horses, 
one hundred and eighty-five draught mules, one am- 
bulance, one medical cart, three mule-drawn rolling 
kitchens, two battery wagons, thirty-three small arms 
ammunition wagons ; seven ration and baggage wagons, 
two store wagons, one motor ambulance, six motor 
cars, five trail mobile rolling kitchens, fifty motor- 
cycles with side cars, one hundred and eight cargo 
trucks, six baggage and ration trucks, five artillery 
repair trucks, three equipment repair trucks, four light 
repair trucks, eight supply trucks, eight tank trucks, 
thirty-six artillery caissons, and two spare guns. 

The officers and men were armed with two hundred 
and seventy-seven pistols and one thousand and fifteen 
rifles. 

At no time did the Train ever receive all of its 
equipment. In the matter of trucks, at one time it 
had nine three-ton Packard trucks and twenty-six 
two-ton ammunition trucks. Only for the period cov- 
ering the last few weeks before the armistice was 
signed did it have anything like this complement of 
artillery caissons. Instead of having fifty motorcycles 
with side cars, it was never furnished officially with 
but one, although at different times we were able to 
salvage some old ones and get some temporary service 
out of them. The fact that the Train was not fur- 
nished with its complement of trucks was not due to 
the fact that they were not to be had, but was solely 
due to the fact that army red tape prevented the trucks 
from being furnished to the Train. 

On the 2 1 St of May, 1918, the organization en- 
trained, leaving Camp Sevier, South Carolina, in three 
sections, and took up its journey towards the front. 
Its entile itinerary in America, across the seas, into 
England, over to France, and into Germany is set 
forth in subsequent pages of this history, and is very 
largely taken from the War Diary of the Train. 

At the time of leaving Camp Sevier, the organiza- 
tion was officered as follows: 

Train Commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. W. 
Lewis. 

Train Adjutant, Captain Wm. H. Cogswell, Jr. 

Train Personnel Adjutant, Captain T. D. Millar. 

Train Supply Officer, Captain H. L. Harlee. 

Chaplain, First Lieutenant John McSween, Jr. 



Molor Battalion: Major A. H. Silcox, Com- 
manding. 

Captain C. W. Muldrow, Battalion Adjutant. 

First Lieutenant W. R. Hillen, Assistant Supply 
Officer. 

Co. A: Captain, J. L. Gantt; Second Lieutenant, 
T. W. Perry. 

Co. B: Captain, H. O. Withington; First Lieu- 
tenant, P. G. Marshall; Second Lieutenant, M. S. 
Clement. 

Co. C: Captain, T. R. Gaiety; First Lieutenant, 
J. J. Powers; Second Lieutenant, L. A. Clair. 

Co. D: Captain, C. H. Ortmann; First Lieuten 
ant, R. H. Fulmer; Second Lieutenant, G. A. 
Kanabel. 

Horsed Battalion: Major T. E. Marchant, Com- 
manding; Captain E. R. Mclver, Adjutant; First 
Lieutenant J. A. Rice, Assistant Supply Officer. 

Co. E: Captain, L. M. Wingard ; First Lieuten- 
ant, J. T. Bagley; Second Lieutenant. Stephen 
Nettles. 

Co. F: Captain, B. F. Gaines; First Lieutenant, 
R. L. Jeffords. 

Co. G: Captain, W. M. Carter; First Lieutenant, 
E. C. McNeal ; Second Lieutenant, W. D. Allen. 

Medical Detachment: Major, Wm. C. O'Dris- 
coU; Captain, Edwin F. Fenner; First Lieutenant, H. 
T. Shiffley; First Lieutenant, Jas. G. Crutchfield, 
Dental Officer. 

Ordnance Detachment: First Lieutenant, Harry J. 
Dornan. 

Veterinarv Detachment: First Lieutenant, Jno. C. 
Johnson. 

Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop: First Lieutenant, 
Donald E. Holmes; First Lieutenant, George A. Tay- 
lor; Second Lieutenant, Francis O. Enberg. 

Upon arrival at Camp Mills, New York, Second 
Lieutenant Kanabel accidentally shot himself, and had 
to be left at the hospital at that place. Lieutenant 
Kanabel had only a short time before this received his 
commission, and gave promise of being a competent 
and faithful officer, and it was a source of much regret 
to the Train Commander and the Company Comman- 
ders that he had to be left behind. His place was 
filled by Second Lieutenant E. B. Haynes, who was 
assigned to duty, at his own request, from the One 
Hundred and Thirteenth Field Artillery after arrival 
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Lieutenant Stephen Nettles, prior to leaving the 
States, had been detailed for duty at Division Head- 
quarters, and never afterwards joined the Train. 

First Lieutenant E. C. McNeal, who had been 
transferred to the Train from the One Hundred and 
Fourteenth Field Artillery, after arrival overseas, at 
his own request and at the request of the Regimental 
Commander of the One Hundred and Fourteenth 
Field Artillery, was transferred back to the One Hun- 
dred and Fourteenth Field Artillery Regiment. 

Before leaving Camp Mills, owing to the limited 
transportation facilities, it was necessary to detach half 
of the officers of the Train, who went overseas with the 
One Hundred and Fifteenth Field Artillery Regiment, 
the other half, with the enlisted personnel of the Train, 
traveling to Montreal, Canada, and taking shipping 
there for England. 

As will be seen in the itinerary hereinafter set forth, 
the Train embarked on board of His British Majesty's 
ship, the Port Lincoln. This ship was commanded 
by Captain Wm. S. Mason, of the Royal British 
Naval Reserves. Captain Mason had been for the 
entire period of the war engaged in transport service, 
and at the time that he took us overseas was just out 
of the hospital, where he had been for four months 
recovering from injuries received by being torpedoed 
by a German submarine off the coast of France. 
Captain Mason was a typical sea captain, a fine gen- 
tleman, and made the voyage as pleasant for us as it 
was possible under the stress of circumstances. It 
was the genuine regret on the part of the officers of 
the Train to leave him at Liverpool. 

Proceeding on our journey, we eventually reached 
our training area in Western France, at Camp Coet- 
quidan. At this place we received our equipment 
for service at the front, and proceeded upon a course 
of intensive training, which continued for a period of 
about two months. This training consisted very 
largely in handling equipment of the Train, hauling 
ammunition for the three regiments of the Artillery 
Brigade, and training the men to accustom them to 
work at night. The Fifty-fifth Brigade, of which 
the Ammunition Train was a part, had been trained 
in the States by Brigadier-General G. G. Gatley, 
who took the Brigade overseas. Shortly after the 
arrival of the Brigade in France, however, General 
Gatley was detached and sent to the front to com- 
mand the Artillery Brigade of the Forty-second Divi- 



sion. It was a matter of sincere regret to the officers 
and men of the Train, who had learned to know and 
value and love General Gatley very greatly. 

After completing the course of training at Camp 
Coetquidan, the Train proceeded to the front, the 
trucks being driven across country by Co. B of the 
Motor Battalion, the convoy consistmg of that com- 
pany under Captain H. O. Withington, and the 
Trench Mortar Battery of the Brigade under Cap- 
tain Gaines, the entire convoy being under the com- 
mand of Major A. H. Silcox. The remainder of the 
Train proceeded by rail to the front, arriving at Toul, 
in what was then known as the Toul Sector, on August 
26. 1918. The brigade was attached to the 
Eighty-Ninth Division, and went into the line in the 
sector north of Toul, taking part in the St. Mihiel of- 
fensive. During this period Major A. H. Silcox was 
relieved from duty with the Train, and sent to other 
sei-vice in the American Expeditionary Forces. 

From September 9th until September 1 8th, the 
Motor Battalion was commanded by Captain H. O. 
Withington, until the last named date, when Major 
E. C. Roberts, who had been the Brigade Adjutant, 
was assigned to duty with the train, and commanded 
the Motor Battalion for only a short while when he 
was detached, and for the remainder of the period, up 
until the signing of the Armistice, the Motor Battalion 
was commanded by Captain Withington. While we 
were in this sector, Rev. Edward R. Mason, a Y. M. 
C. A. worker, was assigned to du'.y with the Train, 
and continued with it until after the signing of the 
Armistice. Mr. Mason was faithful in the discharge 
of all duties that devolved upon him in his capacity as 
a Y. M. C. A. worker, w?s much beloved by the men 
of the Train, and was a great help to the faithful 
Chaplain of the Train, Jno. McSween, Jr. 

Leaving the St. Mihiel salient on the 15th of Sep- 
tember, the Train proceeded to the Argonne, trav- 
eling by night and resting by day. It was in the 
Argonne Sector until the I I th of October, when we 
proceeded back down the line with the remainder of 
the brigade, and went in again in the Troyon Sector, 
remaining in this sector until the Armistice was 
signed. 

Statement of the ammunition handled by the train 
in the different sectors is set forth as part of this his- 
tory, but at most it can be only a faint index to the 
arduous labors, the hardships, the perils and the cheer- 
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In the Valley of the Woevre 

llustralions from a German Book Bought in Coblenz by Captain Ray C. Reeves of the 115th F. A. 



men of the Train. The writer of this brief history 
desires to testify to the fidehty, loyalty, patriotism and 
efficiency of the men who composed this organization. 
The manner in which small things are accomplished is 
usually an index to the efficiency of an organization, 
and the following incidents will tend to show the effi- 
ciency of this organization. 

While billeted at Ambly, the Sanitary Inspector of 
the Thirty-third Division complimented the Train upon 
the cleanliness of the town, saying that it was the 
cleanest town he had seen in France, a model for the 
Division ; and that he proposed to request General 
George Bell, who was then commanding the division, 
to visit the town. 

On another occasion the Division Veterinarian in- 
spected the horses of the Train, and pronounced them 
the best horses he had seen in the American army. 

On still another occasion, a Lieutenant Colonel of 
the Regular Army remarked that, while he had been 



on the General Staff, and had been from one end of 
the American lines to the other, this organization was 
the most punctilious in the performance of military 
courtesy that he had seen anywhere in France. 

In addition to the officers heretofore named, the 
following officers at one time or another were con- 
nected with the organization: 

First Lieutenant E. E. Dooley, resigned May 
16th, 1918. 

First Lieutenant H. W. Reid, M.C., transferred 
March 1st, 1918. 

Captain J. J. Marshall, honorably discharged Jan- 
uary 30th. 1918. 

Lieutenant T. B. Marshall, transferred to the 120th 
Infantry. 

First Lieutenant G. W. Harrison, M.C. 

First Lieutenant C. W. L. Norwood, M.C. 

First Lieutenant G. S. Higgins, M.C. 

First Lieutenant Hoffman, M.C. 



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First Lieutenant Ord. O. Wallace, Veterinarian. 

First Lieutenant L. D. Kendricks, M.C. 

Second Lieutenant W. L. Watkins, resigned Jan- 
uary 21st, 1918. 

Of the enlisted men who attended schools of in- 
struction in the States during the training there, the 
following were duly commissioned : 

Sergeant Saml. M. Clement, commissioned Second 
Lieutenant May 18, 1918, and assigned to duty 
with Co. B, 105th Ammunition Train. 

Sergeant Carl W. T. Prause, commissioned Sec- 
ond Lieutenant July 1, 1918, and sent to the in- 
fantry of the 30th Division. 

Sergeant Evans Edwards, commissioned Second 
Lieutenant July 1, 1918, and sent to the infantry of 
the 30th Division. 

Sergeant Geo. A. Kanabel, commissioned Second 
Lieutenant May 18, 1918, assigned to duty with 
Company D, I 05th Ammunition Train, was detached 
at Camp Mills, New York, May 24, 1918. 

On August 26, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis, 
of the 105th Ammunition Train, by special orders 
from the Division Headquarters, was detailed as Di- 
vision Munitions Officer, and served in that capacity 
from the date of the order until the 1 5th day of Sep- 
tember, when he was relieved by Colonel James D. 
Tilford, of the 98th Division, the 55th Brigade of 
the Ammunition Train having been at that time de- 
tached from the 89th Division and started on its jour- 
ney to the Argonne. From the period of September 
8, 1919, to September 15, 1918, Colonel Lewis 
was temporarily relieved from the Ammunition Train, 



while he was performing his duty as Munitions Offi- 
cer, and during the period named. Colonel James D. 
Tilford, of the 89th Division, commanded the Ammu- 
nition Train. 

On November 25, 1918, Lieutenant Colonel 
Lewis received orders detaching him from the 105th 
Ammunition Train, and sending him for duty with 
the 56th Field Artillery Brigade. 

During its period of service in the American Expe- 
ditionary Forces, the 105th Ammunition Train, as 
part of the 55th Field Artillery Brigade, saw service 
with the following Armies, Corps and Divisions: 
Army. Corps. Divisions. 

I IV 89 

1 1 35 

1 V 37 

I V 32 

I II CAC (French) 79 

1 II 33 

I XVII 33 

I IX 33 

HI VII 33 

VI 33 

Roster of Officers of the 105th Ammuni- 
tion Train, as of November \\, 1919 

Lewis, W. W., Lt. -Colonel. Comn\anding 105th Am. Tn. 
GoGSWELL. Wm. H., Jr., Captain, Adjutant, 105th Am. Tn. 
Millar, T. D., Captain, Personnel Adjutant, 105lh Am. Tn. 
HaRLLEE, Captain, Supply Officer. 105th Am. Tn. 

MOTOR BATTALION 

Roberts, E. C, Major, Motor Ballalion, 105th Am. Tn., 
D. S. attending Army Line School, A. E. F. 

WlTHlNCTON, H. O., Captain, Commanding Motor Bn., Co. 
B 105th A. T. 

Muldrow, C. W., Captain, Adjutant, Motor Bn., 105th A. T. 



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Powers, J. J., 1st Lieut., Supply Officer, Motor Bn., 105th 

A. T. 
Gantt, J. L., Captain, Company A, Motor Bn., 105th A. T. 
Garety, T. R., Captain, Commanding Co. C, Motor Bn., 

105th A. T. 
Ortmann, C. H., Captain, Commanding Co. D, Motor Bn., 

105th A. T. 
Perry, T. W., 1st Lieut., duty with Co. A, Motor Bn., 105th 

A. T. 

HlLLEN, W. R., Isl Lieut., duty with Co. B, Motor Bn.. 

105th A. T. 
Clair, L. A., 1st Lieut., duty with Co. C, Motor Bn., 105th 
A. T. 

FulMER, R. H., 1st Lieut., duty with Co. D, Motor Bn., 

105th A. T. 
Clement, S. M., 2d Lieut., duty with Co. B, Motor Bn., 
105th A. T. 

Haynes, E. B., 2d Lieut., duly with Co. D, Motor Bn., 105tb 

■ A. T. 

HORSED BATTALION 

Marchant, T. E., Major, Commanding Horsed Bn., 105tf 

A. T. 
MclvER, E. R., Captain, Adjutant, Horsed Bn., 105th A. T 
Rice, J. A., 1st Lieut., Supply Officer, Horsed Bn., 105th A. T. 
WiNCARD, L. M., Captain, Commanding Co. E. Horsed Bn., 

105th A. T. 
Gaines, B. F., Captain, Commanding Co. F, 105th A. T. 
Carter, Wm. M., Captain, Commanding Co. G, 105th A. T. 
Bagley, J. T., 1st Lieut., duty with Co. E, 105th A. T. 
Jeffords, R. L., 1st Lieut., duty with Co. F, 105th A. T. 
Allen, W. D., Isl Lieut., duly with Co. G, I05lh A. T. 
Nettles, S., 2d Lieut., Judge Adovcate, 30th Div., 105th 

A. T. 

MEDICAL DETACHMENT 

O'DriscOLL, W. C, Major, Commanding Med. Detachment, 

105th A. T. 
Fenner, E. F., Captain, duty with Med. Detachment, 105th 

A. T. 

Schiffley, H. T.. Ist Lieut., duty with Med. Detachment. 

105th A. T. 
CrutchfiELD, J, G., Isl Lieut., duty with Med. Del., Dental 

Surgeon, 105th A. T. 
Hoffman, J. G., Isl Lieut., duty with Med. Detachment, 

1 05th A. T. 

105TH M. O. R. S. 

Holmes, D. E., 1st Lieut., Commanding Detachment. 
Enberc, F. O., 2d Lieut., duty with Detachment. 
Taylor, G. A., 2d Lieut., D.-S. Commanding Small Arm 
Section at Is-Sur-lile. 

ORDNANCE DETACHMENT 
DoRNAN, H. J., 1st Lieut., Commanding Detachment. 

VETERINARY FIELD UNIT 

Johnson, J. C, 1st Lieut., Commanding Detachment. 

CHAPLAIN 
McSwEEN, John Jr., IsI Lieut., duty with 105th Am. Train. 



Roster of Officers of the I05th Ammuni- 
tion Train, as of February 26, 1919 

Marchant, Maj. Trelawney E Commanding 

O'Driscoll, Maj. William C Surgeon 

Cogswell, Capt. Wm. H., Jr Adjutant 

Millar, Capt. Theodore D Personnel Adjutant 

MuLDRow, Capt. Charles W Supply Officer 

Gessler, Capt. Charles R Ordnance Depi, 

Withington. Capt. H. O Commanding Motor Bn. 

Cunningham, Capt. Wiluam F Adjutant Motor Bn. 

Powers, 1st Lieut. John J Supply Officer, Motor Bn. 

Gantt, Capt. James L Commanding Co. A 

Perry, 1st Lieut Thomas W Duty with Co. A 

HiLLEN, 1st Lieut. Walter R Commanding Co. B 

Clement, 2d Lieut. Samuel M Duly with Co. B 

Wheeler, Capt. Joe D Commanding Co. C 

Clair, 1st Lieut. Laurence A Duty with Co. C 

FuLMER, Capt. Roland H Commanding Co. D 

WiNCARD, Capt. L. M Commanding Horsed Bn. 

RoLSTON, Capt. Norman M.. . .Adjutant, Horsed Bn., Acting 
Wright, 1st Lieut. Edward E.. .Supply Officer Horsed Bn. 

Menige, Capt, G. S Adjutant, Horsed Bn. 

Bagley, Capt. James T Commanding Co. E 

Haynes, 2d Lieut. Edwin B Duty with Co. E 

Nettles, Capt. Stephen, D.-S., 30th Div. Hq. 

Moulds, Capt. .'\lfred E Commanding Co. F 

Jeffords, 1st Lieut. Roland L Duty with Co. F 

Allen, 1st Lieut. Wad D Commanding Co. G 

Dornan, Capt. Harry J Commanding Ordnance Del. 

Schiffley, Capt. Henry T Medical Corps 

Potter, Capt. Ralph E M. C. 

Wood, Capt. Edward R., Jr., Commanding Camp Taylor Del. 

McSween, Chaplain John, Jr. 

Enberg, 2d Lieut. F. O.. . .Commanding Camp Funslon Del. 

Roberts. Maj. Edward C, Jr 

D.-S. Attending Line Officers' School 

I05TH M. O. R. S. 
Holmes, Capt. Donald E 

Commanding 105th, M. O. R. S. 

Taylor, 2d Lieut. George A 

Duty with 105th, M. O. R. S. 

A BOUQUET FROM THE TENT AREA 

Tent Area, Forwarding Camp, 

American Embarkation Center, 

A. P. O, 762 (Le Mans) 

March 8, 1919 

From: Area Commander, Tent Area, Forwarding 

Camp, A, E, C. 
To: Commanding Officer, 1 05th Ammunition Train. 
Subject: An appreciation. 

1 . There are many incidents which could be cited 
wherein I have noted the efficiency of your organiza- 
tion, your efforts to co-operate with the permanent 



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personnel of this area, and the general fitness of the 
officers and men of your regiment, too many to be 
recited herein, but I wish to express in this feeble way 
my appreciation for each and every incident. 

2. The fact that this camp is not yet entirely com- 
pleted, and that the permanent personnel is rather new 
on the job, has added considerable to your burdens, 
discomfort and confusion, yet I have not noted a single 
incident wherein you have failed to meet the situation, 
or where there has been the slightest inclip.ation to 
grumble. 

3. In view of the above it gives me great pleasure 
to thank you, and to wish you a safe and pleasant 
voyage home, prosperity and happiness on your arrival. 

C. K. Knox, 
Major, Infantn, Area Commander. 

The following officers joined the Train since the 
armistice: 

Captain Alfred E. Moulds, 90th Division, Com- 
manding Co. E, 315th Am. Tn. 

Captain Edward R. Wood, Jr., 3d Division, Com- 
manding Hq. Co., 1 8th F. A. 

Captain William F. Cunningham, 90th Division, 
Train Adjutant, 315th Am. Tn. 

Captain Norman M. Ralston, 3d Division, Adju- 
tant Hq. H. Bn., 3d Am. Tn. 

Captain Joe D. Wheeler, 90th Division, Com- 
manding Co. A, 315th Am. Tn. 

Captain Charles R. Gessler, 90th Division, Com- 
manding Ord. Det., 315th Am. Tn. 

Captain G. S. Menige, 3d Division, attached to 
Hq. Co., 18th F. A. 

1st Lieutenant Edward E. Wright, Hq. 2d Army, 
A. D. C, Chief of Artillery, 2d Army. 

The following is a report of officers and enlisted 
men of this organization, showing number from each 
State: 

Slale. Officers. EnVuL Men. 

Alabama 1 20 

Arizona — 12 

Arkansas — 2 

California — 1 

Colorado — 39 

Connecticut — 1 

Florida — 3 

Illinois — 26 

Indiana — 63 

Iowa — 4 

Georgia I |1 

Kansas — 2 



Kentucky ■ — ■ 

Louisiana — 

Maine — 

Maryland — 

Massachusetts — 

Mississippi — 

Montana — 

Missouri — 

Nebraska 1 

New Hampshire — 

New Jersey — 

New Mexico — 

New York 1 

North Carolina 3 

North Dakota — 

Ohio 1 

Oklahoma — 

Pennsylvania 3 

RKode Island — 

South Carolina 21 

South Dakota — 

Tennessee — 

Texas 2 

Vermont — 

Virginia — 

Washington — 

West Virginia — 

Wisconsin — 

Total 34 



5 
I 

5 
1 

7 
2 
I 

67 

96 

3 

5 

2 

12 

245 

3 

5 

4 

28 

3 

495 

29 

43 

2 

I 

5 

I 

4 
1 



1,260 



Itinerary 105th Ammunition Train 

Left Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, May 21, 1918. 

Arrived Camp Mills, Long Island, May 23, 1918. Passed 
through the following states en route: South Carolina, North 
Carolina, Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, 
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. 

Left Camp Mills. L. I., May 25, 1918. Passed through the 
following stales en route: New York, Rhode Island, Connecti- 
cut, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and 
Canada. 

Boarded transport H. M. T., Port Lincoln, at 7:00 A.l«., 
May 26, 1918. The weather was very cold and overcoats more 
than comfortable. 

Sailed, May 27, 1918. 

Arrived Halifax. N. S., May 31, 1918. This five-day trip 
down the St. Lawrence River, around the southern coast of 
New Foundland to Halifax was uneventful with the exception of 
the heavy fog, which prevented us getting a good view of the 
river and the country on both sides. 

Left Halifax, N. S., June 1, 1918. 

Arrived Liverpool, England, June 12, 1918, the trip from 
Halifax to Liverpool covering thirteen days in all. We slept 
in hammocks and were packed in like sardines. There were 
thirteen transports and one British cruiser in our convoy, and 
we were met about five miles out by some American and Brit- 
ish destroyers and chasers, also one dirigible. Among the in- 



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Camp Taylor Detachment 



teresling sights were the following: School of whale, some ice- 
bergs, and passed the spot where the Titanic was sunk. We 
saw the sun set at 10:10 P.M. and rise at 3:00 A.M. In a 
heavy fog for three days and nights and encountered a severe 
storm just before entering the Irish Sea, which made a num- 
ber of the fellows so sick that they were forced to feed the 
fish. We were also attacked by submarines before sighting 
the Irish Coast, but the American chasers made short work 
of them. 

Left Liverpool, England. June 13, 1918. 

Arrived Winchester, England, June 13. 1910. Hiked seven 
miles through the heart of the town to Camp Windie Down, 
where we lived on bread and cheese until the 20th. We were 
warmly welcomed all along the line, and the children followed 
us the whole way to camp. 

Left Winchester, England, June 20, 1918. At Winchester 
we had the opportunity of seeing "King Arthur's Round Table." 
the home of Cornwallis and William the Conqueror, the statue 
of King Alfred the Great, also went to services at the Win- 



chester Cathedral, which is one of the oldest cathedrals in the 
world. It was in this cathedral that King Philip of Spain 
and Bloody Mary were married. 

Arrived South Hampton. England, June 20, 1918. Em- 
barked on His Majesty's transport Antrim, the same date, for 
Le Havre. The transport was very small and again we were 
packed in like sardines. 

Arrived Le Havre, June 21, 1918. Hiked five miles up hill 
to camp, which was a veritable sea of mud. The packs got 
heavier on this hike than on any hike that this Tram has ever 
taken. 

Left Le Havre, France, June 22, 1918. 

Arrived Camp Coetquidan, Guer, France. June 23, 1918. 
Passed through a beautiful section of country en route from 
Le Havre to Camp Coetquidan, which is located on a high 
hill (this will be vouched for by the boys who took that memor- 
able hike with full packs on June 23, 1918, from Guer to 
Coetquidan), with a beautiful view of the surrounding country. 
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Coelquidan was one of ihe Training Camps for some of Na- 
poleon's troops, and we occupied barracks built durmg that 
lime. We were reviewed here several limes by French officers 
of high rank, and when we were not doing squads right and 
lefl between ihe barracks, we were delivering ammunition to 
ihe battery positions of the IBlh, 1 Hlh, and 115th F. A., who 
were working day and night in order to qualify for service on 
ihe American front. 

Left Camp Coelquidan for the front, August 18. 1918. We 
were here detached from the 30lh Division. Tlie truck convoy 
of twenty-seven trucks left Camp Coelquidan on August 15th, 
all trucks in the battalion having been turned over to Company 
B. Major A. H. Silcox was in command of the convoy and 
the following towns were passed through on the trip, which 
covered more than 500 miles: Rennes, Laval. Le Mans, Ec- 
commoy. Tours, Vourvray, Blois, Orleans, Bellegrade, Mon- 
targis, Sens and Troyes, then to Foret de la Reine. 
Arrived Toul, France, August 26, 1918. 

Left Toul. France, August 26, 1918. Hiked twenty-three 
kilometers to Foret de la Reine, through the rain and slush, 
and pitched our "pup" tents and slept on the wet ground in the 
Foret that night. 

Arrived Foret de la Reine, August 26, 1918. We received 
our first gas alarm in these woods. This is where Sergeants 
Blohme and Eddie Ruus tried to put on haversacks instead of 
gas masks. We also received our first real taste of French 
mud while in these woods. 

Dump on National Highway in the Foret de la Reine blown 
up by shell fire from long range guns on August 31. 1918. 
Left Foret de la Reine, September 1, 1918. 
Arrived Foret de la Menil la Tour, September 1, 1918. 
Major A. H. Silcox transferred while in these woods and Cap- 
tain H. O. Withinglon assumed the command of the Motor 
Battalion on September 9, 1918. 

Left Foret de la Menil la Tour, September 11, 1918. At- 
tached to 89th Division. 

Arrived Andilly, September 11, 1918. We were placed in 
billets in this town for the first time after reaching the front. 
The battle of St. Mihiel, which was the first real test of the 
American Army, opened up at 12:57 A.M., September 12th. 
We were then hauling ammunition from Royameux to battery 
positions of the 113th, 114lh and 115th F. A. 

Left Andilly on the night of September 15, 1918. Our 
march into the Argonne started on this date. We were on the 
road five days and nights, covering anywhere from fifteen to 
twenty kilometers each night, through all kinds of weather and 
over all kinds of roads. 

Arrived Foret de la Reine, September 15, 1918. This was 
our second camp in these woods. We reached camp during a 
heavy rain and pitched "pup" tents. 

Left Foret de la Reine on the night of September 16, 1918. 
Arrived Boncourt on the morning of September 17, 1918. 
Left Boncourt on the night of September 17, 1918. Majo,- 
E. C. Roberts transferred to this train and assigned to the 
Motor Battalion on September 18, 1918. 

Arrived Villot devant Mihiel on the morning of September 
18, 1918. We were fortunate in securing billets in this town, 
as it was very cold and rainy all day. 



Left Villot devant Mihiel on the night of September 18, 1918. 

Arrived Chaumont on the morning of September 19, 1918. 

We were placed in billets in this town, and had our first and 

only inspection of the hike, which look place in front of our 

billets at 11:00 A.M.. September 1 9lh. 

Lefl Chaumont 10:00 P.M., September 19, 1918. 
Arrived Auzeville at 7:00 A.M., September 20, 1918. We 
were billeted in this town from September 20th to October 5, 
1918, during which time we were attached to the 32d, 35th 
and 37th Divisions. This was during ihe battle of the Argonne. 
which started September 26th. Auzeville was shelled almost 
continuously from Sepetmber 21st to September 26lh, inclusive, 
with high explosives from long range guns, and we were also 
bombed by aeroplanes on several occasions. Using AuzevilL 
as a base, we hauled ammunition from the following dumps: 
Dump southwest of Auzeville through Parrois, Recicourl, etc., 
to dumps of the I 13th, 1 14th and 1 15th F. A. at Avoucourl. 

Lefl Auzeville, October 5, 1918. Attached to 79lh Divis- 
ion, October 5, 1918. 

Arrived Bois les Comie, October 5, 1918. We lived in 
"pup" tents and waded around in the mud for five days while 
in these woods. It was in these woods thai a convoy of 350 
planes passed over our camp at 5:00 P.M., October 9, 1918, 
on their way to Germany. We were bombed by one Boche 
plane on the nights of October lOlh and 1 1 ih. but no damage 
was done. This machine was after an ammunition dump near 
our camp. 

Left Bois les Comte in trucks at 10:00 A.M., October 11, 
1918. 

Arrived Ambly-sur-Meuse at 12:30 P.M., October 11, 1918. 
Attached to 33d Division. 

Company C assigned for duty with 304th Engineers at 2d 
Battalion dump, October 14, 1918. This company occupied 
dugouts that had recently been occupied by the Germans and 
collected a number of souvenirs. 

Company A assigned for duty with 304lh Engineers at 2d 
Battalion dump, October 15, 1918. This company also oc- 
cupied dugouts which had formerly been occupied by the Ger- 
mans. Capl. J. L. Gantt had his office in the dugout which 
had formerly been t'le headquarters of some German Brigade 
Commander, and which was one of the most complete dugouts 
on this front. Again the souvenir hunters were in glory. 

While we were billeted here one hundred and ten men of 
the 105lh Ammunition Train were given seven days' leave 
(time of travel not included) at the American Leave Area at 
La Bouboule, France, which is in central southern France, 
and in the center of one of the most famous playgrounds of 
all Europe. Here we were put up in the Richeleau Hotel and 
were given all the comforts and privileges and conveniences 
enjoyed by tourists at very high prices. We visited Murol 
Castle, built in the eleventh century, the old Roman Baths at 
Mount Doar and other interesting and historical places. 

Ambly shelled by long range guns on the night of Novem- 
ber 4, 1918, but practically no damage was done. Company 
D on duty at Hannonville, November lOlh and 1 1 th, this 
company being under heavy bombardment during the entire 
time. 

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the followinn dumps: 2d C. A, C, at Ambly-sur-Meuse 
(French dump) and dump at Troyon-sur-Meuse. 

Drive southwest of Verdun by Second Army started Novem- 
ber 9th and continued until cessation of hostiHties on the 
eleventh hour, eleventh day and eleventh month of 1918. We 
were officially notified by the tolling of all church bells and 
announcement by the Town Major and Y. M. C. A. Secretary. 

Armistice signed at 5:00 A.M., November 11. 1918. 

Route of Motor Battalion, 105th 

Ammunition Train 

while with army of occupation 

Left Ambly-sur-Meuse. December 7, 1918, December 8. 
1918. The Motor Battalion. 105th Ammunition Train, moved 
from Ambiy to Olley in two sections. The first section, con- 
sisting of Companies A and B. and Tn. Hq.. left Ambly \n 
trucks on the morning of December 7th. The second section, 
consisting of Companies C and D and Motor Battalion Hq., 
left in trucks about noon. December 8th. The route taken is 
as follows: Genicourt, Dieue-sur-Meuse, Sommedieue, Hau- 
dainvillc, Etain to Olley. We were the first troops to be 
billeted in the town of Olley after it was evacuated by the 
Germans. We were put up in billets there that were in a filthy 
condition and full of rubbish, cooties and other souvenirs. 

Left Olley. December 9. 1918. The fool troops left Olley 
at 7:00 A.M., marching in a column of squads. Capt. C. H. 
Ortmann was in command of the battalion. We arrived Spin- 
court, a distance of twenly-one kilometers, at 3:00 P.M. It 
rained hard all day and the roads were very muddy and slip- 
pery. At Spincourt the billets were very poor and congested 
on account of the town bemg badly shot to pieces and other 
troops being billeted there. Route: Etain. Bellevue to Spin- 
court. 

Left Spincourt. December 10. 1918. The foot troops left 
Spincourt at 7:00 A.M.. marching m a column of squads. Capt. 
J. L. Gantt in command of the battalion. Arrived Longuyon, 
a distance of seventeen kilometers, at 3:30 P.M. Route: Rouvrois. 
Arrons to Longuyon. At Longuyon we were put up in Ger- 
man barracks, which were also very dirty and filthy and full 
of cooties. The barracks were outside of the city limits. 
Longuyon was pretty badly shot to pieces and all the stores 
were closed. 

Left Longuyon, December II, 1918. The 33d Division 
passed to 7th Army Corps at 2:00 P.M.. this date. 

The foot troops left Longuyon at 11:00 A.M. Capt. J. L. 
Gantt in command of the battalion. Arrived Longwy at 4:30 
P.M., covering a distance of fifteen kilometers. Route: Toulan- 
court to Longwy. The roads were very muddy and slippery 
on account of the incessant ram. The entire Motor Battalion 
was billeted in a German Hospital, which was like the rest of 
the German billets, very dirty and filthy. Longwy damaged 
very little. Plenty of cognac here. 

Left Longwy (two kilometers from Belgium), December 12, 
1918. Foot troops left Longwy at 9:00 A.M. Capt. Gantt in 
command of the battalion. Arrived Esch at 4:00 P.M., cover- 
ing a distance of twenty-seven kilometers. Route: Houcourt, 
Brehain. La Cour, Villerupt, Audun le Tiche (Lorraine) to 



Esche Alzette, Lux. At Villerupt the truck convoy was halted 
from 12:30 P.M. until 1:30 P.M.. awaiting appointed time to 
cross the border into Lorraine. The entire 105th Ammunition 
Tram was billeted in the Ecole de Commercial et Industrial, 
and we enjoyed electric lights, running water and steam heat 
and a good live town. Esch Alzette is a town of 75,000 peo- 
ple, made up of French, English, Italian, German and Luxem- 
burgers. 

Left Esch, Alzette, Lux., December 15. 1918. The fool 
troops left Esch at 8:30 A.M. Captain J. L. Gantt in command 
of the battalion. Arrived Alzingen at 1 :00 P.M., covering a 
distance of eighteen kilometers. Route: Hesperingen to Alzin- 
gen. This was the first day out that it did not rain. The 
roads were very slippery, two trucks turned over en route, but 
no one was hurl, although Sergeant Ortmann, Company D. 
came near having his head knocked off by a field kitchen flying 
past his head. Billeted in barns, etc. One billet occupied by 
men from Co. F burned down on the night of December 18th. 

Left Alzingen, December 19. 1918. The 33d Division 
passed to 2d Army at 12:30 P.M.. this date. 

The foot troops left Alzingen at 9:00 A.M. Captain C. H. 
Ortmann was in charge of the battalion. Arrived Rollingen 
and Birschbach at 2:10 P.M.. covering a distance of twenty- 
one kilometers. Route: Eish, Luxemburg. Rollingen to Birsch- 
bach. On this hike we experienced rain, sleet and snow. 

At Birschbach and Rollingen we were pretty comfortably 
fixed in barns, outhouses, etc., but the battalion was badly scat- 
tered. Incessant rain throughout our stay here. 

Orders received December 18th to move to Angelsbach on 
the morning of December 19th; orders rescinded December 19th 
at 9:00 A.M. 

Orders received December 21st to move to Moresdorff and 
Peltingin, also Beringin if necessary. These orders rescinded 
December 22d. Orders received December 27th to move to the 
28th Division at Woinville, movement to commence December 
30th. Orders rescinded December 28th on account of men not 
having sufficient shoes. 

Orders received to sleep on arms December 29th and be 
in readiness to answer "Call to Arms" at a minute's notice. 
These were precautionary measures taken on account of the 
strike of the Luxemburg army of 250 men. 

Received orders 10:00 P.M., January 3d, to move to Isenborn 
and Imbringin on the morning of the 4th. Orders cancelled 
at 9:00 A.M., same dale. Received orders at 11:00 A.M., same 
date, to move to same towns. Orders cancelled at 2:00 P.M., 
same dale. Received orders to move at 2:05 P.M.. same date. 
Orders cancelled 4:00 P.M., same date. 

Rceived orders at 5:00 P.M., to move to Keispel, Meispel, 
Schonsfels, Blaschette, Imbringin and Eisenborn by fool on 
the morning of January 6th, this movement to be continued 
on the 7th and the four days thereafter. Thanks to Captain 
H. O. Withington. these orders were cancelled, as Captain 
Withinglon secured sufficient trucks from Biigade Headquar- 
ters to ride the entire Motor Battalion, completing the sched- 
uled six-day hike of about 1 10 miles in one day. 

The Motor Battalion left Birschbach and Rollingen in three 
convoys, all trucks clearing Rollingen at about 9:00 A.M. 

Convoy of F. W. D. trucks. Lieutenant Clair, convoy com- 



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mander. arrived Mars-Le-Tour at 4:00 P.M., January 6, 1919. 

Convoy of F. W. D. trucks. Lieutenant W. R. Hillen, con- 
voy commander, arrived Mars-Le-Toui at 5:00 P.M., January 
6. 1919. 

Convoy of Liberty trucks. Captain (?), from the 103th 
Supply Train, convoy commander, arrived Mars-Le-Tour at 
10:30 A.M., January 7. 1919. The convoy commander from 
the 108th Supply Train got lost only three times on this trip 
and never did show up at Mars-Le-Tour. 

Left Mars-Le-Tour in three convoys, January 11. 1919, 
movement beginning at 7 :30 A.M. 

Arrived Lagney, a distance of fifty-four kilometers, m about 
five hours. Weather very cold. Third section encountered 
plenty of rain, sleet and snow en route. Billets at Lagney 
very sorry. 

Left Lagney in three sections, first section due to leave 
Trondes a! 10:10 A.M.. January 19th. second section at 5:10 
P.M., and third section at 11:10 P.M. 

First section pulled out from Trondes at 8:10 P.M., January 



19th; second section at 3:15 P.M., January 20th. Third sec- 
tion pulled out at 5:00 A.M., January 21st. 

First section arrived at Evron at 3:30 A.M., January 23, 1919. 
Second section arrived at Evron at 12:00, noon, January 24. 
1919, and third section arrived at Evron at 5:00 P.M.. Jan- 
uary 25, 1919. Each section consisted of thirty-five American 
box cars, with an average of sixty men to each car. It was 
bitterly cold throughout the trip and everybody found it very 
hard to keep warm. On the second day out, the third section 
expericed a wreck, in which fifteen men were killed and thirty- 
five wounded. The wreck occurred about noon, when the train 
was between the cities of Neufchateau and Endelot. The 
wounded were rushed to Base Hospital No. 64. at Remicourt. 
Among those killed were Supply Sergeant Schuler, Med. Dept.; 
Sergeant Arthur Welling, Ordnance Detachment; Sergeant 
Mack, of the Horse Battalion, and others. 

Left Evron at 12:00. noon. February 6, 1919. 

•Arrived Le Mans at 3:00 P.M., February 6. 1919. Trip to 
Le Mans made in box cars with about forty-five men to each 








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car. Our camp at Le Mans was situated about five kilometers 
from the town. We were placed m tents there and given a 
thorough delousing, issued new uniforms, blankets, etc., and put 
in shape for our trip home. 

That Part of Horsed Battalion Which Dif- 
fers From Motor Battalion 
While in Luxemburg, the Horsed Batlalion was 
billeted as follows: 

Horsed Battalion billeted in Buschbach. Company E. Rol- 
lingen; Company F, Moesdorf; Company G. Pettinge. 

January 6, 1919, Horsed Batlalion proceeded to Keispelt. 
Lux. Distance covered, seven miles. 

January 7. 1919, left Keispelt, Lux. Arrived Betlingen. 
Lux. Distance covered, fourteen miles. 

January 8, 1919, left Bettingen, Lux. Arrived Seurreville. 
Distance covered, eighteen miles. 

January 9, 1919. left Seurreville. Arrived Fleville, France. 
Distance covered, fifteen miles. 

January 10, 1919, left Fleville. Arrived Mars-le-Tour. 
Distance covered, fourteen miles. 

January 12, 1919, left Mars-le-Tour. Arrived Heudicourt. 
Distance covered, twenty miles. 

January 13, 1919. Left Heudicourt. Arrived Lagney. 
Distance covered, twenty-one miles. 

January 19, 1919, left Lagney and entrained at Tiondes. 

January 23, 1919. Arrived at Evron, France, and hiked 
to St. Gemmes. While here Hq. Horsed Battalion, Cos. E 
and F. were billeted in St. Gemmes. Company G billeted 
Mezangers. 

February 6, 1919, left Evron and arrived Tent Area, For- 
warding Camp, same day. 

For all other information pertaining to Train, see 
itinerary of motor battalion, attached. 



Detonators for six Newlons 5.000 

Strips for machine guns 11 5.928 

Small arms, cal. 30, cartridges 400,000 

Small arms, cal. 45, cartridges 400,000 

B — Amount Hauled While at Auzeville 

75 m-m shells 40,157 

1 55 m-m shells 585 

Powder charges 270 

Fuses 33,282 

C — Amount Hauled While at Ambly-sur-Meuse 

75 m-m shells 17.609 

155 m-m shells 10,247 

Powder charges 9,956 

Fuses 1 3,646 

Primers 10,100 

Small arms, cal. 30, cartidges 1,682,400 

Small arms, cal. 45, cartridges 250.000 

D — Total Amount of Ammunition Hauled 

75 m-m shells 82,035 

155 m-m shells 14,328 

Powder charges 1 7,326 

Fuses 120,448 

Primers 1 2,860 

Small arms, cal. 30, cartridges 2,082,400 

Small arms, cal. 45, cartridges 650,000 

Strips for machine guns I 1 5,928 

Detonators for six Newlons 5,000 

2. I am attaching hereto an itemized statement, 
showing when the above ammunition was hauled, 
where it was hauled from, where it was hauled to, and 
the lot number of same. 

C. W. Muldrow, 

Captain, U. S. A. 



Headquarters Motor Battalion, 105th 

Ammunition Train 
American Expeditionary Forces, France 
November 13. 1918 
From: Adjutant Motor Battalion. 105th Ammuni- 
tion Train. 
To: C. O., 105th Ammunition Train. 
Subject: Report on ammunition hauled. 

1 . The following amount of ammunition has been 
hauled by the Motor Battalion. 105th Ammunition 
Train, since arriving at the front: 

A — A.MOUNT Hauled While in the Menil-la-Tour 
Sector 

75 m-m. shells 24.269 

155 m-m shells 3,496 

Powder charges 7,100 

Fuses 73,520 

Primers 2,760 



.Ammunition Delivered While in the Menil-la-Tour 

Sector 
August 30, 1918 — From Dongermain Dump to 89th Division 
Small Arms Dump. 

400,000 rounds 30 cal. ball cartridges. 

From Marbache Dump to 89th Div. Small Arms Dump. 

400,000 rounds 45 cal. pistol balls. 

From Small Arms Ammunition Dump to 114lh and II 5th 

38,456 rounds 8 m-m in strips for machine guns. 
August 31, 19 IS — From Small Arms Ammunition Dump to 

ll4ih F. A. 

38,736 rounds 8 m-m in strips for machine guns. 
September I, 1918 — From Small .Arms Ammunition Dump to 
115th F. A. Dump. 
38,736 rounds 8 m-m in strips for machine guns. 
From Royameix Dump to 89th Divsion Dump (Lieutenant 

Fulmer). 
3,366 rounds 75 m-m shells (approximately). 
September 2, 1918 — From Royaumeix Dump to 89lh Division 
Dump (Lieutenant Fulmer). 
150 rounds 155 m-m shells. Lot No. 5. 



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4.320 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 337. 
5,319 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 290. 
9 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 289. 
234 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 291. 
3.600 I. A. L. fuses for 75 m-m. 
3.200 fuses, black and while, for 75 m-m. 
From Leonval Dump to 89lh Division Dump. 
850 rounds 155 m-m shells. 
Seplember 3, 1918 — From Camp to French Train on National 
Highway. 

150 rounds 155 m-m shells. 
414 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
1.520 rounds B. S. P. 155 m-m charges. 
From Royaumeix to French Tram on National Highway. 
4 boxes B. G. 5. Lot No. 211 (2-2's and 2-2's). 

22 boxes B. G. 5. Lot No. 211. 
22 boxes B. G. 5. Lot No. 201. 
12 boxes B. S. p. Lot No. 138. 

2,000 fuses 1. A. L. for 155 m-m. 
2,020 primers for 1 55 m-m. 

From La Fonine Dump to 89th Division Dump. 
1305 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 284. 
September 4. 1918 — From La Fonine Dump to 1 15th F. A. 
24 boxes 960 charges B. G. 5. 
20 boxes 800 charges B. S. P. 
954 rounds 155 m-m shells. 
2,178 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
Seplember 7, 1918 — From 89th Division Dump to 1 I 5lh F. A. 
880 charges. 
1,000 fuses (approximately). 
September 8, 1918 — From Dongermain Dump to 113th and 
114th F. A. Dump. 
1,728 rounds 75 m-m shells (approximately). 

700 fuses. 
From Dongermain Dump to 212th French Positions. 
1,080 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
500 fuses. 

Ammunition Delivered While at Menil-la-Tour Sector. 
September 10. /9/8 -From Old Balloon Station to 113th, 
I14lh and 115th F. A. 
10,000 rounds 1899 S. R. fuses. 
10,000 rounds I. A. L. fuses, 1916. 
10.000 rounds 1899-08 A. R. fuses. 
5,000 rounds detonators for six Newlons. 
September II, 1918 — From La Fonine Dump to 113lh. Il4lh 
and 1 5th F. A. Regiments. 
30,000 fuses. 
September 12, 1918 — From 89th Division Dump and Limey to 
part along side of road near Flirey, and part along side of 
road near Bullionville. 
420 rounds 155 m-m high explosive shells. 
222 rounds 155 m-m F. A. shells. 
420 rounds B. S. P. powder charges. 
220 rounds B. G. 5 powder charges. 
700 rounds I. A. L. fuses. 
860 rounds 75 m-m shells (from Limey). 



September 13, 1918 — From Rangeval Dump to Andilly (by 
Lieutenant Powers), and from Andilly to Flirey (by Cap- 
tain Gantt). 
2,376 rounds 75 m-m H. E. shells. 
September 14, 1918 — From La Fonine Dump to Flirey, for 

1 1 5th F. A. 

490 155 m-m shells. 

490 powder charges. 

490 fuses. 

490 primers. 
September 15, 1918 — From Noviant Dump to Bouconville for 

the 115th F. A. 

250 155 m-m shells. 

250 powder charges. 

250 fuses. 

250 primers. 
1,080 75 m-m shells. 
1,080 fuses, for 75 m-m shells. 

Ammunition Hauled While at Auzeville 
September, 22, 1918 — From Am. Dump, near Auzeville, to 

113th F. A. 
1,250 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
September 23, 1918 — From Am. Dump, near Auzeville, to 
Regiment Dump, 113th F. A. 
1,350 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 71. 
500 I. A. L. fuses. 
882 S. R. fuses. 
September 23, 1918 — From Am. Dump, near Auzeville, to 
Regiment Dump, I Nth F. A. 
3,915 rounds 75 m-m shrapnel. Lot No. 69. 
37 cases fuses. 
September 24, 1918 — From Dump, near Auzeville, to Regiment 
Dump, 1 14th F. A. 

2,799 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 71. 
2,440 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 115. 
2,093 I. A. L. fuses. 
5,268 white fuses. 
September 24, 1918 — From Dump, near Auzeville, to Regiment 

Dump, 113th F. A. 
1.782 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 71. 
1,584 rounds 75 m-m shells. Not No. 108. 

900 I. A. L. fuses. 
2,646 white fuses. 

From Dump, near Auzeville, to I Nth F. A. Dump. 
1,361 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 15. 

552 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 562. 

100 I. A. L. fuses. 

882 A. T. S. fuses. 

870 A. R. fuses. 
From Dump, near Auzeville, to 1 13th F. A. Dump. 

81 rounds 55 m-m shells. Lot No. 8. 
1,637 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 514. 
1 ,740 white fuses. 
1. 100 1. A. L. fuses. 
September 25, 1918 — From Dump near Auzeville, to Dump 

113th F. A. 
1,584 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 514. 
1.755 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 514. 



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From Dump, near Auzeville, to I14lh and I22d F. A. 

Dumps. 
1.143 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 514. 
1,782 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 562. 
790 fuses. 
September 27, 1918 — From Regiment Dump. I 14th F. A., to 

1 14th F, A. 

4,554 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 515. 
5.220 white fuses. 

2,500 I. A. L. fuses. 

From Regiment Dump. I 13th F. A., lo 1 13th F. A. 
2,493 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 514. 
1,312 L A. L. fuses. 

635 white fuses. 
Seplemher 28. 1918 — From Regiment Dump, 114th F. A., to 

114th F. A. 

396 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 115. 

Amimunition Hauled While at Auzeville 
September 29, 1918 — From Avoucourt to I I 5th F. A. 
465 rounds 155 m-m shells. Lot No. 47-3. 
140 powder charges. 



October I, 1918 — From Verrerries to I 13th and I 1 4th and 
115th F. A. 
1,782 rounds 75 m-m shells. 

120 rounds 155 m-m shells. 
1,800 fuses. 
October 2, 1918 — From Montfaucon to 1 13th F. A. 
1.368 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 415. 

200 rounds 155 m-m shells. 
1.300 I. A. L. fuses. 
5 boxes powder. 
October 3, 1918 — From Lemmes to 113th and 114th F. A. 

792 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 360. 
October 4, 1918— From Lemmes lo 113th and 1 14th F. A. 
900 rounds shrapnel. Lot No. 306. 
873 smoke shells. Lot No. 44. 
Oclober 3, 1918 — From Lemmes to 113th and 114th Battery 
Positions. 

801 rounds 75 m-m smoke shells. Lot No. 44. 
999 rounds 75 m-m smoke shells. Lot No. 44. 
1,116 fuses. 
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October 4. /9/S— From Am. Dump to IHlh F. A. Battery 

Positions. 

198 rounds smoke shells. 
1,008 rounds shrapnel. 
October 5, /9/8— From Rarecourt to Brigade Dump. 

315 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 290. 

477 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 326. 

164 A. R. fuses. 

630 R. Y. fuses. 
October 6. /9/8— From Rarecourt to Regiment Dump. 

621 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 326. 
From Rarecourt to 113lh and 114th Gun Positions. 

792 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 290. 

594 rounds 75 m-m shells. Lot No. 290. 

630 R. T. fuses. 

450 R. Y. fuses. 

324 A. R. fuses. 
Ammunition Delivered While at Ambly-sur-Meuse 
October 15, /9/8— From Ambly to 115th F. A., Echelon. 

1,0000 primers. 
October 19, 1918— From Troyon Dump to 113th F. A. Regi- 
ment Dump. 

500 75 m-m shells shrapnel. 
3,830 rounds 75 m-m shells H. E. 
Oc(oter 26, 1918— From Point 75-60 to 1 1 5lh F. A. Dump. 
445 rounds O. A. shells. 
448 rounds F. A. shells. 
254 rounds gas shells. 
462 rounds B. S. P. powder. 
394 rounds B. G. powder. 
597 L A. L. fuses. 

98 L. R. fuses. 
451 C. R. fuses. 
Oc(ofcer 28, 1918— From Hdq. 55th F. A. Brigade to Lieu- 
tenant Day, Chaillon. 
486,000 rounds 30 cal. 1906 ball cartridges. 
October 29, 1918— From Hdq. 55th F. A. Brigade to 33d 
Division Dump. 
486,00 rounds 30 cal. 1906 ball cartridges. 
October 31. 1918— From Hdq. 55th F. A. Brigade to Private 
Hemphill Small Arras Am. Dump. 
710,400 rounds 30 cal. cartridges. 
250,000 rounds 45 cal. cartridges. 
November I, 1918 — From Atlonville to 1st Battalion, I13lh 

F. A. 

1,900 rounds H. E. 75 m-m shells. 

500 rounds shrapnel 75 m-m shells. 
2,400 fuses. 
November 3, 1918 — From Frascati Dump to 113th and 136th 
F. A. 

4,000 rounds Model 1917 long shells with fuses. 
1,000 rounds F. A. 155 m-m shells, with B-G 5 powder, 
fuses and primers. 
November 5, 1918 — From Troyon and Ambly Dumps to 113th 
and 136th F. A. 
6,125 rounds H. E. normal 75 m-m shells, with fuses. 
1,000 rounds F. A. shells, 155 m-m, with fuses and primers. 



1,000 rounds F. A. shells B. G. 5 powder for 155 m-m 
ammunition. 
November 6, 1918 — From Frascati Dump to I15lh F. A. 
1,100 round; F. A. shells. 

1,100 B. G. 5 powder charges, with fuses and primers. 
November 8, 1918— From Frascati Dump to 1 1 5th F. A. 
2,000 rounds 155 m-m shells, with fuses, powder charges 
and primers. 
November 9, 1918 — From Troyon Dump to 2d Battalion, 113th 
F. A. 

754 rounds H. E. Model 1917 75 m-m long shells. 
November 10, 1918— From Frascati Dump to 115th F. A. 
2,000 rounds 155 m-m O. A. shells. 
2,000 rounds B. G. S. powder for 155 mm shells. 
1.000 rounds 155 m-m F. A. shells. 
1.000 rounds B. G. 5 powder. 
3,000 primers for 155 m-m shells. 

Headquarters Horsed Battalion, 105th Am- 
munition Train 
American Expeditionary Forces, France 
November 14, 1918 
From: Adjutant, Horsed Battalion, 105th Ammuni- 
tion Train. 
To: Commanding Officer, 1 05th Ammunition Train. 
Subject: Report of Ammunition Hauled. 

1. The following amount of ammunition has been 
hauled by the Horsed Battalion, 105th Ammunition 
Train, since arriving at the front: 

A — Amount Hauled While in Bois de la Reinne 

75 mm shells 5.136 

37 m-m shells 780 

8 m-m shells 823,080 

45 cal. ball cartridges 155,300 

30 cal. ball cartridges 2,331,000 

Stokes mortars 36 

White rockets 36 

Cheville rockets 600 

B — Amount Hauled While at Auzeville 

75 m-m shells 4,141 

155 m-m shells 355 

C — Amount Hauled While at Ambly-sur-Meuse 

75 mm shells 1.800 

Slokes mortars oU3 

37 mm H. E. shells 160 

One-pound shells 3,000 

Grenades 21,950 

Signal rockets 2,500 

Fuses 1.700 

Fuse boxes 10 

D — Total Amount of Ammunition Hauled 

75 m-m shells 11,077 

155 m-m shells 355 

37 m-m H. E. shells 940 



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8 m-m shells 823,080 

One-pound shells 3,000 

Stokes morlars 639 

Ball cartridges, cal. 45 I 55,300 

Grenades 21,950 

Signal rockets 2,500 

Cheville rockets 600 

While rockets 36 

Fuses 1 ,700 

Fuse boxes 10 

Ball cartridges, cal. 30 2,331,000 

2. I am attaching hereto an itemized statement, 
showing when the above ammunition was hauled, 
where it was hauled from, and where it was hauled to. 
E. R. McIvER, 
Captain, U. S. A., Adjutant. 

Ammunition Delivered While in Bois de la Reinne 
September 5, I9IS — From Dump near Menil-la-Tour to 105th 
Am. Tn., for issue. 
5,300 rounds cal. 45 ball cartridges. 
36,000 rounds cal. 30 ball cartridges. 
September 8, 1918 — From Rockspur Dump to Park of Co. G. 
105th Am. Tn. 
316,800 rounds cal. 30 ball cartridges. 
24,000 rounds cal. 45 ball cartridges. 
1 5,360 rounds 8 m-m for machine guns. 
Scplembcr 9, 1918 — From Rockspur Dump to Park of Co. G, 
105th Am. Tn. 
316,800 rounds cal. 30 ball cartridges. 
24.000 rounds cal. 45 ball cartridges. 
1 5,360 rounds 8 m-m for machine guns. 
From Regiment Dump. 114lh F. A. to Battery positions 
of 114th F. A. 
828 rounds 75 m-m gas shells. 
724 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
September 10, 1918 — From Rockspur Dump to Park of Co. G, 
I05th Am. Tn. 

780 rounds 37 m-m shells. 

36 Stokes mortars. 
600 Chevelle rockets. 
36 While rockets. 
From Dump on National Highway to Park of Cos. E. and F. 
1,430 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
September II, 1918 — From unknown Dump lo Battalion Posi- 
tions, 114th F. A. 
1.054 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
September 12. /9/8— From Park of Co. G, 105th Am. Tn. 
to 89th Division Small Arms Dump, near Flirey. 
422,400 rounds cal. 30 ball cartridges. 

32,000 rounds cal. 54 ball cartridges. 
254,760 rounds 8 m-m for machine guns. 



September 13. /9/S— From Park of Co. G to Small Arms 
Dump. 177lh Inf. Brigade at Bullionville. 
237,600 rounds cal 30 ball cartridges. 
18,000 rounds cal. 45 ball cartridges. 
138,240 rounds 8 m-m for machine guns. 

From Park of Co. G to Small Arms Dump, 178th Inf. 
Brigade, near Benney. 
184,800 rounds cal. 30 ball cartridges. 

14,0000 rounds cal. 45 ball cartridges. 
107,520 rounds 8 m-m for machine guns. 

September 14, 1918 — From unknown Dump to Battery Posi- 
tions, 1 14th F. A. 

1,100 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
From Co. G to destination not reported. 
492,600 rounds cal. 30 ball cartridges. 
38.000 rounds cal. 45 ball cartridges. 
291.840 rounds 8 m-m for machine guns. 

Ammunition Deuvered While at Auzeville 
September 23, 1918 — From Dump lo Battery positions, 113lh 
and 114th F. A. 
1,116 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
September 29. 1918 — From Dump to Battery Positions, 113lh 
and 114th F. A. 
1,328 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
October 5, 1918 — From Dump lo Battery Positions, I13lh and 
114th F. A. 
1,697 rounds 75 m-m shells. 
From Dump to 1 1 5th F. A. Battery Positions. 
355 rounds 155 m-m shells. 

Ammunition Delivered While at Ambly-sur-Meuse 
October 20. 1918 — From Troyon Dump to Caisson Park, H. 
Bn.. 105lh Am. Tn. 
1,800 rounds 75 m-m H. E. shells. 

240 1. A. L. 24-31 fuses. 
732 T. R. 99 fuses. 
728 A. R. 99-08 fuses. 

10 boxes fuse. 
October 26. 1918 — From French Am. Dump at Troyon to 
Small Arms Dump, 33d Division. 
2,500 signal rockets. 
5,000 C. F. grenades. 
6,000 O. F. grenades. 
6,500 V. B. grenades. 
November 8. 1918 — From Troyon Dump lo Target Range at 
Tilley. 
3.000 rounds Mb. shells. 
November 10. 1918 — From Dump near Ambly lo North Dump. 
603 Stokes mortars. 
160 rounds 37 m-m H. E. shells. 
3,650 O. F. grenades. 
800 suffocating grenades. 



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^m^-)^^ lEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM WALLACE LEWIS. 




Born Rock Hill, 
S. C. Married Miss Anna K. Rawlinson. Children, Anna R., Frances S., 
and John S. Graduate of the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, 
Charleston, 1899, B.S. Senior Captain of Cadets at the Citadel. Chairman Board 
of Trustees, York, S. C, graded schools. Chairman Board of Visitors the Citadel. 
Special Judge Court of Common Pleas. Attorney-at-Law. Member Masonic bodies and Knights 
of Pythias Eighteen years, nine months, and sixteen days continuous service in N. G. in State and 
Federal Service. March 29, I 900-April 10, 1904, Captam J. A., 1st Inf., S. C. ; April II, 1904- 
June 30, 1 905, and July I , I 905-March 30, 1915. Colonel. 1 st S. C. Inf. ; March 31, 1915, trans- 
ferred to unassigned list by G. O. No. II, A. G. O., S. C. March II, 1916, transferred to the Of- 
ficers' Reserve Corps, S. C, N. G., by G. O. No 9, A. G. O., confirmed by act of Legislature, 
approved March 2, 1916. August 3, 1917, appointed Lt.-Col. 2d S. C. Inf. Commissioned by 
President of the United States Lt.-Col. Inf., S. C, N. G., in the service of the United States. No- 
vember 15, 1918, transferred to 56th F. A. Brigade and assigned to duty with I I 6th F. A. Com- 
manded 105th A. T. from September, 1917, until November 15, 1918. Sailed overseas with 
105th A. T., and commanded it throughout active service at front except while acting Brigade 
Munitions Officer, 55th F. A. Bgd. Mustered out of service January 14, 1919. Son, John S. 
Lewis, Cadet at Citadel, member S. A. T. C, discharged from army at Charleston, December 10, 
1918. Attended S. A. T. C, Plattsburg, Summer, 1918. Daughter, Anna R. Lewis, Secretary 
York Chapter American Red Cross. Address, York, S. C. 



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MAJOR TRELAWNEY ESTON MARCHANT. Born 
Lexington Co., S. C. Unmarried. Enlisted Co. M, 2d S. C. Inf., 
N. G., October 15, 1905. Served as enlisted man until February 
17, 1910. Commissioned 2d Lt., N. G. S. C, February 18, 1910. 
Assigned to duty same company. Promoted Captain July 13, 1912, 
Co. M, 2d S. C. Inf., until promoted Major, June 21, 1915, and 
assigned to command of 2d Bn. (Columbia, S. C, companies). When 
this regiment was changed into the 105th Ammunition Train, assigned 
to command of Horsed Battalion and remained in command of this 
battalion until November 27, 1918, when assumed command of the 
Train on transfer of Lt.-Col, W. W. Lewis to 56lh F. A. Brigade, 
and remained in command until March 7, 1919. when detached at 
Le Mans, France, returning to the United Stales as a casual. Active 
service, Mexican border. 1916-17; World War. 1917-18-19. Home 
address, New Brookland, S. C. 





MAJOR WILLIAM CYRIL O'DRISCOLL. Bom Charleston, 
S. C. Married Miss Rose Helene Berlrand. One son, aged 4, Wm. 
Cyril, Jr. MiHtary College of South Carolina, 1901, B.S.; Medical 
College, Stale of South Carolina. 1905, M.D.; House Surgeon and 
Resident Physician, St. Francis Xavier Infirmary; Assistant Surgeon 
Military College of South Carolina; Assistant House Physician Stony 
Wold Sanatorium; Assistant Quarantine Officer, Port of Charleston, 
S. C. At present is Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Medical College 
of South Carolina. Graduated from Military College of South Caro- 
lina and served for several years as Resident Assistant Surgeon of 
that institution. Made a number of practice marches and summer en- 
campments with the South Carolina Corps of Cadets, at request of 
faculty. Captain Co. C, 3d S. C. Inf., N. G., known as the Irish 
Volunteers, claimed to be the oldest Irish organization in the United 
Slates. Joined the Medical Section, U. S. Reserve Corps, when 
diplomatic relations were broken with Germany. Later resigned to 
accept commission as Major M. C, with 2d S. C. Inf., on appoint- 
ment of the Governor of that state. Served with 55th Depot Brigade 
and 117th Inf., while at Camp Sevier, and was Senior Medical officer 
with the 105lh Ammunition Train during its entire service in France. 
Served one enlistment in Naval Reserves of South Carolina. Home 
address. No. 31 Savage St., Charleston, S. C. 



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CAPTAIN HARRY OGIER WITHINGTON. Married Miss 

Jennie Conner. Child. Julia Elizabeth. Educated in the Public 
Schoob. Enlisted as private, Co. B, 3d S. C. Inf., N. C. February 
18, I90I. Served as Corporal, Sergeant and ist Sergeant. Com- 
missioned 2d Lt., 1906. Promoted Ist Lt., 1907, Captain March 
II. 1909. Eighteen years' continuous service with same organization, 
of which ten years was as Captain. Commanded Motor Ballalion, 
103th Ammunition Train, from September 9, 1918. Graduate A. E. 
F. Gas Defense School. Active service on Mexican border with 
3d S. C. Inf. Served throughout the European War with 
the 105th Ammunition Train. Commanded Train on return to the 
United Stales from Le Mans, France, Embarkation Center, to muster 
out of service at Camp Jackson, S. C. Home address, No. 57 Chapel 
St., Charleston. S. C. 



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CAPTAIN WILLIAM HARVEY COGSWELL. JR. Un- 
married. Attended Charleston, S. C, High School, 1905-08; the 
Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. Charleston, S. C. 
1908-10; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala., 1910-13, de- 
gree of Bachelor of Science. Enlisted as private, Co. B, 3d S. C. 
Inf., N. G., July 1, 1909. Promoted 1st Lt. and Adjutant of Ist 
Bn., 2d S. C, Inf., July 16, 1913. Service on Mexican border 
August 13, 1916, to March 10, 1917. Answered call of President 
for European War, and acted as Train Adjutant I05th A. T., Sep- 
tember 15, 1917, to March I, 1918. Promoted Captain S. O., 57lh 
W. D., March 2, 1918. Served throughout the active duties of the 
Ammunition Train as Adjutant. Home address. No. 69 Ashley St., 
Charleston, S. C. 



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CAPTAIN THEODORE DEHONE MILLAR. Married 
Miss Edna Bonnell. Children, Theodore Charlton, Charles Reed, 
Allen Dehone, Edna Janice and Edmund Grice. Graduated from 
Courtney Public School, Charleston, S. C. and Converse College. 
Y. M. C. A. Branch (Business Course), Charleston, S. C. Enlisted 
Co. B, 3d S. C. Inf., N. G., January 26, 1898. serving in all grades 
from private through the non-commissioned staff. Commissioned 2d 
Lt.. February iO. 1908. Promoted 1st Lt., April 3, 1915. Served 
with Company B, 2d and 3d S. C. Inf. Served through the Mexican 
trouble with the 2d S. C. Inf. on the border. August 5, 1917, com- 
missioned 1st Lt., 105lh Ammunition Train. May 9, 1918, promoted 
Captain and assigned as Personnel Adjutant of the 105th Ammuni- 
tion Train. Went overseas with and served through the war with 
this command. Address, No. 5. West Fishburne St.. Chaleston, 

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CAPTAIN BENJAMIN F. GAINES. Born Bradley, S. C. 
Unmarried. Graduated with honors Department of Engineering, the 
Citadel, Military College of South Carolina. Charleston. 1915. Win- 
ner of the John D. Wilson ring. Class of 1915, the Citadel. Me- 
chanical Engineer. Enlisted 1st Lt., the Darlington Guards. Co. E, 
2d S. C. Inf., May, 1916. Captain of the same company November 
20. 1916. Mexican border service August 21, 1916-March 10, 1917, 
Commanded Co. F, 1 05th A. T., throughout the entire war with 
Germany. On detached service with Royal Field Artillery (British) 
at Ypres, Belgium, August 1-17, 1918. Army of Occupation of 
Germany. Artillery Schools, Valdahon and Coetquidan, France. 
Discharged as Capt. F. A. July 22, 1919. Brother, Edmund P. 
Gaines, 1st Lt. Air service, pilot, A. E. F. Brother, William J. 
Gaines, Jr.. Pvt. S. A. T. C, 1918. Sister, Miss Mary J. Gaines, 
served in war work at Washington. D. C. Address, Carnegie In- 
stitute of Technology, Pittsburg, Pa. 



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CAPTAIN JAMES LAWRENCE GANTT. Unmarried. 
Graduated Porter Military Academy. Charleston, S. C, June, 1904. 
Enlisted Co. A, 3d S. C. Inf.. N. G., January 23, 1903. Commis- 
sioned 2d Lt., 3d S. C. Inf.. July 3. 1912. Promoted 1st Lt.. same 
regiment, June 26. 1913. Promoted Captam, same regiment, De- 
cember 26, 1913. In command Co. K, 3d S. C. Inf., until April 
3, 1915. Commanded Co. A, 2d S. C. Inf., until organization 
changed into Co. A, 105th Ammunition Train. Served throughout 
the war with Germany in this organization. Home address. No. 145 
Rutledge Ave., Charleston, S. C. 



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CAPTAIN WILLIAM MOORE CARTER. Born Edgefield 

County, S. C. Married Miss Julienne Knight Pace, of Atlanta, Ga., 
December 3, 1912. Daughter, Susan Powers Carter, aged five years. 
Attended Clemson Agricultural College and University of South Caro- 
lina. Banker and insurance. Enlisted Co. B, 2d S. C. Volunteer 
Infantry for Spanish-American War service. Said to have been the 
youngest man in service at that time. Served as Sergeant. Isl Lt. 
and Captain. N. G., S. C. Commanded Co. F, the Governor's 
Guard, 2d S. C. Inf. on Mexican border, 1916-17. Commanded 
Co. G, 105th .A. T. until transferred to Army of Occupation of 
Germany January 27, 1919, where he served as Adjutant Motor 
Bn. and of Ammunition Train, 3d Division. Also commanded Co. 
L, 30th Inf., and as Assistant Disbursing Q. M.. 3d Division. Re- 
turned to United States August 18, 1919, and is now on duty with 
82d F. A., Ft. Bhss, Tex. Address, Columbia. S. C. 




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CAPTAIN CHARLES RAMSEY GESSLER. Married Miss 

Alice May Erwin. Attended Philadelphia. Pa., public schools. 
Commissioned Captain December 11, 1917. Attended Ordnance 
Schools, Peoria, 111., Clintonville, Wis., and Rock Island Arsenal. 111. 
Assigned as Ordnance Officer. 315th Ammunition Train, 90th Division, 
May 21, 1918. Served with this organization during the European 
War and assigned to and returned to United States with 105th Am- 
munition Train, January 26, 1919. Served in Army of Occupation 
of Germany. Address, 6019 Catherine St.. Philadelphia. Pa. 





CAPTAIN HARRY J. DORNAN. Unmarried. Attended 
Fordham University and St. Michaels Institute, N. Y, Engaged in 
Automobile Tire business. Member Society of Professional Auto- 
mobile Engineers. Commissioned 1st Lt., November 9, 1917. At- 
tended Artillery School at Rock Island Arsenal, 111. Assigned to 
105th Ammunition Train April 10, 1918. Sailed overseas and served 
throughout the European War with this organization. Promoted Cap- 
tain February 22, 1919. Mustered out of service with organization 
at Camp Jackson. Columbia, S. C, April 3, 1919. Address. 2206 
Broadway, New York. N. Y. 



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CAPTAIN CHARLES WESLEY MULDROW. Bom Flor- 
ence, S. C. Unmarried. Attended Graded Schools, Florence. S. C. ; 
the Citadel (S. C. M. A.), Law School University of South Caro- 
lina, Columbia, S. C. Council of Legal Education (Inns of Court), 
London, England. House of Representatives of South Carolina, 1915- 
16. Attorney-at-Law. Omar Temple, Shrine; Charleston Lodge No. 
242, B. P. O.. Elks; Gate Cily Council No. 103, Jr. O. U. A. M.; 
Walnut Camp No. 52, W. O. W. Organized Company K, 2d S. 
C. Inf. Commissioned Captam June 19, 1916. Federal service July 
4, 1916, to March 20, 1917, on Mexican border, at El Paso, Texas. 
Answered call of President for European War July 25, 1917. As- 
signed to 1 20th Inf., at Camp Sevier. Transferred to 105th Am- 
munition Train as Adjutant Motor Battalion, .April 19. 1918. Left 
Camp Sevier for overseas duty May 21, 1918. With 55lh F. A. 
Brigade throughout active service of that organization. Ordered to 
England on detached service from Le Mans, France, March I, 1919. 
Returned to United Stales July 18, 1919. Discharged at ATamp Dix, 
N. J., July 26. 1919. Appointed Lt.-Col. on staff of Governor R. 
A, Cooper of South Carolina, August 5, 1919. Home address. Flor- 
ence. S. C. 



CAPTAIN HENRY TIMROD SCHIFFLEY. Married Miss 
Emma Maude Witten. Child, Maude Elizabeth. Attended Orange- 
burg, S. C, High School, Porter Military Academy, Medical College 
State of South Carolina, graduated Class of 1912. Interne and Ex- 
terne Roper Hospital, Charleston, S. C, 1912-13. Commissioned 
Ist Lt., Medical Corps, N. G., 2d S. C. Inf., July 24, 1917. Regi- 
ment changed to 105th Ammunition Train, September 15, 1917. 
Promoted Captain February 23, 1919. Home address. No. 9 Hen- 
ley St., Orangeburg. S. C. 




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LIEUTENANT WALTER REED HILLEN. Enlisted Co. B, 3cl 

S. C. Inf., N. C, February 17. 1902. Commissioned 2d Ll.. March II. 
1909. Dcsignalion of regiment changed to 2d S. C. Inf., March. 1915. 
Served on Mexican border from August 13, 1916, to March 10. 1917. 
Called mto Federal service for European War, July 25. 1917. Promoted 
1st Lt.. F. A., March 2, 1918, assigned Co. B, 105th Ammunition Train. 
Sailed for France with and served throughout the war with this organization. 
Home address. No. 53 Chapel St., Charleston, S. C. 





LIEUTENANT WAD D, ALLEN. Bom Fruit Hill, Edgeileld, 

S. C. Married Miss Anna Strother Hollingsworth, June 16, 1915. Son, 
J. Hord, Jr., aged 3 years. Attended Edgefield, S. C, High School. 
Farmer. Enlisted as private Co. G (Governor's Guards), August 2, 1917. 
Stable Sergeant, September 28, 1917. Commissioned 2d Lt., February 23, 
1918. Promoted 1st Lt., November 13. 1918. Commanded Co. G, I05lh 
Ammunition Train, January 26, 1919, until it was mustered out of service, 
April 1, 1919. at Columbia, S. C. Served throui;houl the war in Company 
G, 105th A. T. Discharged as 1st Lt., Field Aitillery. Home address, 
Chappels. S. C. 



LIEUTENANT EDWIN BYRON H.'WNES. Born Raleigh, N. C. 

Married Miss Carrie Lillie Page. Buie's Creek, N. C, December 24, 1917. 
Attended A. and M. College, Raleigh, N. C. Salesman. Member Travel- 
ing Protectorate Association. Left Raleigh, N. C, August, 1917, for Camp 
Sevier, as Q. M. Sergeant. 1st Class. Later transferred to Supply Co., 
I13lh F. A., as Ordnance Sergeant. Promoted 2d Lt.. and assigned Battery 
F. 113th F. A. Arrived in France with regiment, June, 1918. Detailed 
to buy horses, and on return to regiment at Camp Coetquidan requested trans- 
fer to 105th A. T., which was done August, 1918. Served through the war 
with the 105th Ammunition Train. Was occupant of first box car in the 
disastrous wreck near Manois, France, in which twenty-two men of the 
ll-(th, i nth, F. A„ and 105th. A. T., were killed. Mustered out of service 
at Camp Taylor, Ky., "Easter," 1919. Brother, Alfred M. Haynes, served 
in the U. S. Navy. Address, 119 S. Dawson St., Raleigh, N. C. 




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LIEUTENANT THOMAS WARING PERRY. Unmarried. At- 
tended Bennett School and Charleston, S. C, High School. Enlisted Co. 
A, 3d S. C. Inf.. January 17, 1910. Commissioned 2d Lt., May 5, 1916, 
and assigned to Co. A, 2d S. C. Inf. Promoted 1st Lt., August 12, 1918. 
Served throughout the European War with Co. A, 105th Ammunition Tram. 
Home address. No. 83 Wentworth St., Charleston, S. C. 



CHAPLAIN JOHN McSWEEN, JR. Married Miss Lina Crews. 
Children, Allen Crews, William Crews. Graduated Davidson College, 
N. C, 1908, B.S.; Columbia Theological Seminary. S. C, 1913, B.D. 
Private Co. I, 2d S. C. Inf., May, 1907-May, 1909. Corporal, same com- 
pany, 1909-1911. Commissioned Chaplain and Isl Lt., 2d S. C. Inf., Sep- 
tember 2, 1916. Served with regiment on the Mexican border, 1916-17. 
Served as Chaplain 105th Train Headquarters, 113th Machine Gun Battal- 
ion, and 105th Military Police. Transferred to 105th Ammunition Train, 
March, 1918, and served throughout the European War with this organiza- 
tion. Home, address, Timmonsville, S. C. 





LIEUTENANT LAURENCE A. CLAIR. Born Charleston, S. C. 
Married August 14. 1917, at Charleston, S. C, to Miss Margaret Sharfer. 
Child, Laurence A., Jr., aged 13 monhts. Attended Courtney Public School, 
St. Patrick's Parochial School and High School. Charleston. S. C. Ac- 
countant. Enlisted Co. C, 3d S. C. Inf., March 25, 1910. Served on 
Mexican border as Supply Sergeant with Co. C, 2d S. C. Inf.. being sta- 
tioned for seven months at Camp Owen Bierne. El Paso, Texas. Mustered 
out of Federal service, March 19, 1917, and honorably discharged from 
N. G., June 7, 1917. Re-enhsled Co. C, 2d S. C. Inf., July 16, 1917. 
Commissioned 2d Lt., August 1, 1917. Served with 105th Ammunition 
Train throughout the European War. In addition to duties with company, 
served as Judge Advocate for the Train, both in U. S. and France. Pro- 
moted 1st Lt., November 7, 1918. Mustered out of service at Camp Jack- 
son, S. C, April 3. 1919. Home address, 148 Spring St., Charleston, S. C. 



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LIEUTENANT JOHN JAMES POWERS. Unmarned. Enlisted 
Co. C, 3d S. C. Inf., March 25. 1910. Regiment changed to 2d S. C. 
Inf., 1915. Served on Mexican border with this regiment, 1916-17. Com- 
missioned 1st Lt., August 5, 1917, and assigned to Co. C, 2d S. C. Inf. 
Regiment changed to 105th Ammunition Train, September 15, 1917. As- 
signed to Headquarters Motor Battalion, November 29, 1918, as Bn. Supply 
Officer. Sailed for France and served through the war with 105th Ammuni- 
tion Train. Home address, 92 Reid St., Charleston, S. C. 





LIEUTENANT SAMUEL MORTIMER CLEMENT. Unmarried. 

Enlisted Co. B, 3d S. C. Inf., November 27, 1914. Designation of regi- 
ment changed to 2d S. C. Inf.,, March, 1915. Served on Mexican border 
with regiment, 1916-17. Answered call of President for European War, 
July 25, 1917. Sailed for France with 105th Ammunition Train, June 4, 
I9I8. Served throughout war with this organization. Graduate of 3d Of- 
ficers* Training Camp. Commissioned 2d Lt., May 18, 1917. Home ad- 
dress. No. 177, Wentworth St., Charleston, S. C. 



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Captain Roland H. Fulmer. Bom New Berry, S. C. 
Children, Gladys Kreps and Marjorie Mae. Attended Uni- 
versity of South Carolina. 1911-13. Member Masonic Lodac. 
Pharmacist. Enlisted N. G., S. C, September 20, 1907. 
Promoted 2d Lt., September 10, 1913. Promoted Capt., Sep- 
tember 20, 1915. Transferred to O. R. C, July, 1916. As- 
signed to active service June 5, 1917, as 1st Lt. Promoted 
Capt., February 23, 1919. Served with 55th F. A. Brigade 
from its organization until mustered out of service. Address, 
New Brookland, .S. C. 

Captain Edward Randolph Wood, Jr.. Bom Philadelphia, 
Pa. Unmarried. Attended Protestant Episcopal Academy, 
Philadelphia, class 1893; Sibley College, Cornell University, 
1897. Member University Club, Engineers' Club, Philadelphia 
Club, Racquet Club, Union League, University Club, Phila- 
delphia, and Alpha Delta Phi (College Fraternity) Club, Cor- 



nell Club and Engineers' Club, New York City. Mechanical 
Engineer. Plattsburg Business Men's Training Camp, August, 
1915-1916. R. O. T. C, Ft. Oglethorpe, August 25-Novem- 
ber 26, 1917. Com.missioned Capl.. N. A., November 27, 
1917. Attached to Supply Co., 18lh F. A., Ft. Bliss, Texas. 
Sailed overseas with that organization. Attended Artillery 
School at Coetquidan, France, until June 23, 1918. Reported 
as Advance Supply Officer, 3d Dlv. Hq., Chateau Boltre, 
near Chateau Thierry, Ainse, France, June 28, 1918. Supply 
Officer, 18lh F. A. Took part in second battle of the Marne, 
Marne-V'esle, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, Heights of the 
Mcuse Offensives. Army of Occupation of Germany. Trans- 
ferred to 115th F. A., and to 105lh A. T., January, 1919. 
Unit Supplv Officer, 105th A. T. until mustered out of service 
with Tram'at Columbia, S. C, April 3, 1919. Address. Uni- 
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Captain William Franklin Cunningham. Born Summit, 
Miss. Unmarried. Graduate Virginia Military Institute, Class 
of 1914, B.S. degree. Electrical Engineering. Member S. A. 
E. Fraternity, Southern Club, Community Club and Chamber 
of Commerce, Birminaham, Ala. Cadet V. M. I., 1909-14, 
Isl Sergeant. Battery C, Alabama F. A. on Mexican border 
service. Commissioned Capl., F. A., at 2d O. T. C, Leon 
Springs, Texas, November 27, 1917. Assigned to 315th A. T., 
90th Div. Served as Regimental Adjutant during the service 
of that organization in France and Germany until transferred 
to 105th A. T.. January, 1919. Returned to U. S. and mus- 
tered out with that organization. Sister, Miss Elizabeth Cun- 
ningham, in the entertainment service, Y. M. C. A., in Eng- 
land and France for ten months, returning to U. S., June, 
1919. Address, 3218 Cliff Road, Birmingham, Ala. 

Captain Norman M. Rolston. Born Philadelphia, Pa. 
Married Miss Kalherine G. Scott, Philadelphia. Pa., October, 
1915. Scientific Photographer. Entered service at Ft. Ogle- 
thrope, In 2d O. T. C. Commissioned Capt., F. A., and as- 
signed to 3d A. T., November 27, 1917. Served in France 
in charge of remount station at Coetquidan, May-June, 1918. 
Took part in Marne, St. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne Offensives. 
Transferred to 3d Div. Hq., as C. O. Hq. Troop, November 
II, 1918. Acted as Billeting Officer for division and had 
charge of movement of Div. Hq. to the Rhine. Relieved and 
made District Defense Commander, 3d Div., stationed at An- 
dernach-am-Rhine. Transferred to I05lh A. T., January, 
1919, and returned to U. S. with Train and mustered out of 
service at Camp Dix, N. J., April 17, 1919. Mrs. Rolston 
active in Red Cross work in Philadelphia and Chattanooga, 
Tenn. Address, 740-A, City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. 

C.APTAIN James TaLMAGE BaglEY. Wife, Mrs. Bessie Bag- 
ley. Children, Misses Viola Cruese and Norma Talmage Bag- 
ley. .Attended graded schools of South Carolina. Enlisted 
Co. D, 2d S. C. Inf., January 24, 1910. Commissioned 2d 
Lt., Co. G, 2d S. C. Inf., January 15, 1916. Served on Mexi- 
can border, 1916-17. Promoted 1st Lt., August 2, 1917. Pro- 
moted Captain, February 23, 1919. Commanded Co. F, 105th 
A. T., October 8, 1918, until mustered out of service. Address, 
1425 Richland St., Columbia, S. C. 

Captain Joe D. Wheeler. Wife, Florence Bagby Wheeler. 
Commissioned 2d O. T. C, Camp Stanley, Leon Springs, 
Texas. Assigned as C. O., Company A, 315tli A. T., 90th 
Div., December 15, 1917. Left U. S. in command of detach- 
ment for duty in England, June 14, 1918. Joined 315th A. T. 
in England, June 24, 1918, and arrived in France July 25, 

1918. Participated in St. Mihiel and Meuse- Argonne Of- 
fensives. Member Army of Occupation of Germany, stationed 
at Noviand, Germany. Transferred to 105th A. T., January, 

1919. Returned to U. S. as C. O., Company C, and mustered 
out with this organization. Address, 1212 Sixth Ave., Ft. 
Worth, Texas. 

Captain George S. Menice. Unmarried. Attended Cen- 
tral High School and Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, Pa. Grad- 
uated 2d O. T. C, Ft. Ogletho.pe. Assigned 18th F. A., 
serving with that regiment until transferred to 105th A. T., 



January, 1919. Promoted Captain, November 12, 1918. Ad- 
dress, 219 S. 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Captain Louis Metz Wingard. Married Miss Lecy T. 
Worrell. Children. James M., and Louis M., Jr. Attended 
graded schools. Enlisted Co. D, 2d S. C. Inf., February 
7, 1902. Commissioned 1st Lt., 2d S. C. Inf., June 15, 1907. 
Resigned same, September 17, 1909. Commissioned Captain, 
2d S. C. Inf., March 5, 1913, and assigned to command of 
Company G. Served on Mexican border, June 19, 1916- 
March 20, 1917. Commanding Co. G, 2d S. C. Inf., July 25- 
September 15, 1917. Commanded Co. E., 105th A. T., Sep- 
tember 16, 191 7-December 7, 1918. Commanded Horsed 
Battalion, 105th A. T., December 8, 1918, until return to 
United States and muster out of service. Address, Olym- 
pia, S. C. 

Captain Ralph E. Potter. Married Miss Neva F. Mc- 
Dowell. Son, James Potter. Attended Loyola University, 
Chicago, degree M.D. Graduated Medical Officers' T. C, 
Ft. Benj. Harrison, 1917. Commissioned Captain. Served Bn. 
Surgeon Inf., 3d Div., November 19, 191 7-December 12, 1918. 
Surgeon with 148lh F. A., from December 12, 1918-January 
13, 1919, when transferred to 105th A. T. Returned to U. S. 
and mustered out with this organization. Army of Occupation 
of Germany, November II, 1918-January 13, 1919. Address, 
Loraine, III. 

Captain Thomas Raymond Garety. Wife, Leola Lorenze 
Garety. Daughter, Leola Louise. Enlisted as Pvt., Co. D, 
2d S. C. Inf., November 15, 1909. Served with that organiza- 
tion until April 5, 1913. Commissioned 1st Lt., Co. D, 2d 
S. C. Inf., serving as such until April 20, 1916. Promoted 
Captain and assigned to command of Co. C, 2d S. C. Inf. 
When the regiment was changed into the 1 05th A. T. remained 
in command of Company C, and commanded it throughout the 
war. Transferred to 3I5th A. T., January 25, 1919, joining 
it in the Army of Occupation of Germany. Address, 226 
Ashley Ave., Charleston, S. C. 

Captain Evander Rodeick McIver. Wife, Mrs. Miriam 
T. McIver. Children, E. Roderick and Forde A. Attended 
Clemson Agricultural College, A.B., 1905. Enlisted man, 
1904-06, Co. K, 2d S. C. Inf. Captain Co. K, 2d S. C. Inf., 
I9I4-I915. June 19 to November 19. 1916, Company E, 2d 
S. C. Inf. November 20, 1916, to March 2, 1918, 1st Lt., 
Co. E, 2d S. C. Inf., and 105th A. T. March 2, 1918, to 
January 27, 1919, Captain and Adjutant Horsed Bn., 105th 
A. T.' February 1, 1919, transferred to 315th A. T., 90th 
Div. Returned to U. S. and mustered out with that organiza- 
tion. Address, Darlington, S. C. 

Lieutenant Roland L. Jeffords. Born Darlington, S. C. 
Unmarried. Attended Clemson College, 1912-14. Enlisted 
Co. K, 2d S. C. Inf., 1909, and served in that organization 
until 1914. Enlisted Co. E, 2d S. C. Inf., June, 1916, and 
served nine months with regiment on Mexican border, being 
promoted Sergeant and 1st Sergeant. Commissioned 2d Lt., 
April 24, 1917. Promoted 1st Lt., March 2, 1918. Mustered 
out of service. July 16, 1919. 



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Train Headquarters Detachment 



Headquarters Detachment 

On September 15, 1917, the First and Second 
Battalions of the Second South Carolina Infantry, as 
per General Orders No. 4, Headquarters 30th Divi- 
sion, were converted into an Ammunition Train, desig- 
nated as the 105th Ammunition Train, 55th F. A. 
Brigade, 30lh (Old Hickory) Division. 

The Headquarters Detachment then numbering only 
eight men, was formed by transfer of picked men from 
both Battalions with Captain William H. Cogswell, 
Jr. (then 1st Lieut.) as Commanding Officer and Ad- 
jutant of the Train. 

A later publication of the tables of organization 
increased the strength of the Detachment to twenty- 
eight men, thereby causing the transfer of more men. 
These men came from the States of Alabama, Ten- 
nessee, Virginia, Nebraska, Missouri, Arizona, Wis- 
consin, Colorado. Oklahoma. New York, Pennsyl- 
vania, Massachusetts and South Carolina. li took so 
wide a selection of America's best to find those com- 
petent for the varied and arduous duties of a Head- 
quarters Detachment — there must be non-commis- 
sioned officers of executive ability, faithful orderlies, 
trusty and rapid dispatch bearers, smart stenographers 
and skilled typists, and these must be soldiers to whom 
fear is a stranger. 

Someone has said that a Headquarters Detachment 
needs those who are fit to be officers, but willing to 
be soldiers, and this Detachment has fulfilled its trust. 



1 05th Ammunition Train 

ROSTER OF HEADQUARTERS 

DETACHMENT 

I05th Ammunition Train 

REGIMENTAL SERGEANT-MAJOR 

Blohme. Adolph F 12 Thomas St., Charleston. S. C. 

REGIMENTAL SUPPLY SERGEANTS 

ElCKMEYER. Henry 53 Cannon Street, Charleston, S. C. 

Ferguson, Edward M Lancaster, S. C. 

SERGEANTS 

Reus, William E 167 St. Philip St., Charleston, S. C. 

CaUTHEN, W. B Ill Chesterfield Ave., Lancaster S. C. 

MuCKENFUSS, Wm. F 21 College St,. Charleston, S. C. 

CORPORALS 

Lively, Everett L R. F. D. 3, South Omaha, Neb. 

Phillips, Earle J 282 Coming St., Charleston, S. C. 

Riley, Chas. G 2220 S. 10th St.. Omaha, Neb. 

Sampson, Wm. W....2112 W. Washmgton St., Suffolk, Va. 
COOK 

Crow, Elmer E Mokane. Mo. 

WAGONERS 

Brown, John E 109 Fountain Si., Darlington. S. C. 

LiNGLE, John R Lancaster, S. C. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Barnett. Claude T R. F. D. 1. Taylors, S. C. 

Burgess. Raymond H Box 924, Tucson, Ariz. 

Davis. William K 1 79 St. Philip St., Charleston. S. C. 

Eyer, Victor S Phoenix, Ariz. 

Garland, Robert C R. F. D. 5, Johnson City, Tenn. 

LuscH, Carl L Swedeburg, Nebr. 

McFarland, Herman O Blair, Neb. 

McKoWN, WlW. E 122 S. 7th St., Lacrosse, Wis. 

RoTOLO, ToNY 933 Currie Ave., Pueblo, Colo. 

Smiley, Paul R Buchanan, Va, 











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PRIVATES 

Brown, Cameron H 1814 N. 26th St., Omaha, Neb. 

Clark, J. A., Cor. Lawrence and Pearl Sis., Glen Falls, N. Y. 

Davenport, Wm. O Valley Head, Ala. 

Nettles, Robert W R. F. D. 2, Florence, S. C. 

Reid, Henry B 141 Spring St., Charleston, S. C. 

Attached to Headquarters Detachment 
PRIVATES 

Aaron, Robt. C 2319 Park St., Columbia, S. C. 

Lee, Frank A 124 W. 9t'i St., Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Martell, Wm. F 6 River St., Webster, Mass. 

Musgrave, Earl W 156 Soulh Front St., Milton, Pa. 

Schemnitzer, Jos. H....25I3 N. llih St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Slook, John H 8105 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Men Who Joined Organization Since 

Nov. n, 1918 

REGIMENTAL SERGEANT-M.^JOR 

Merritt, Hugh B Carlisle, S. C. 



Men Who Left Organization Prior to 

Nov. 1 1, 1918 

REGIMENTAL SERGEANT-MAJOR 

Merritt, Hugh B Carlisle, S. C. 

SERGEANT 
Walker, George K Transferred to 89th Div. 

PRIVATES 

Gilbert, Ward Transferred to 89th Div. 

Musso, Joseph Transferred to 89th Div. 

Died of Disease 
Merritt, Hugh B.; died Feb. 18, 1919, at Camp Hosp. No. 
52, Le Mans. Cause, broncho pneumonia. Next in kin, 
Mrs. Amanda A. Merrilt (mother), Carlisle, S. C. 

Men Sent to Training Camp 

REGIMENTAL SERGEANT-M.AJOR 
Merritt, Hugh B Artillery School at Samour, France. 



Headquarters Detachment, Motor Battalion 

The First and Second Battalions of the Second Captain Charles W. Muldrow having been re- 
South Carolina Infantry, having been converted into lieved of assignment as Adjutant, Motor Battalion, 
the I 05th Ammunition Train per General Order No. and assigned to Train Headquarters as Supply Of- 
4, Headquarters 30th Division, dated September 15, ficer, 1 05th Ammunition Train, on January 27, 1919, 
1917, the Headquarters Detachment of the Motor Captain William F. Cunningham, formerly Regi- 
Battalion, then numbering nine (9) men with Captain mental Adjutant, 315th Ammunition Train, 90th 
W. H. Cogswell, Jr. (then 1st Lieut.) as Command- Division, was assigned to Headquarters Motor Bat- 
ing Officer and Adjutant, was organized by transfer talion as Adjutant and Commanding Officer, 
of picked men from the Motor Battalion. 

Later on, the Tables of Organization having been ROSTER OF HEADQUARTERS DETACH- 

changed, increasing the Detachment to 30 men, this MENT, MOTOR BATTALION 

Detachment was brought up to organized strength by 1 05th AMMUNITION Train 

men selected from detachments of drafted men from REGIMENTAL SUPPLY SERGEANT 

Camps Jackson and Funston. R^^-^' H^^"^- " ^" ^t. Philip St.. Charleston, S. C. 

Captain W. H. Gogswell, Jr. (then 1st Lieut.) BATTALION SERGEANT-MAJOR 

, . , , , o ■ I I I T ^ Wilbur. Edward H....156 Rulledge Ave., Charleston, S. C. 
having been transterred to Kegimental Headquarters 

Aj- . . J r- J rMC ui J ► SUPPLY SERGEANT 

as Adjutant and Commanding Ofhcer, Headquarters „ r- r^ m > n . c <- 

„,,■.„,..,,, Rickenbaker, John W R. F. D. No. I, Round, S. C. 

Detachment, Captain Charles W. Muldrow, then SFRGFANTS 

Commanding Officer, Company F, 120th Infantry, ^^^^ j^^^ <-. R. F. D. 252 Cartersville, Mo. 

was transferred to Headquarters Detachment, Motor Barnes, William F Brusson, S. C. 

Battalion, as Adjutant and Commanding Officer. CORPORALS 

This Detachment functioned in connection with Bisson, Leon J 105 Pine St., Berlin. N. H. 

T • 11 J , .L I . it ■ J ( . ■ ■ Murphv, William F R. F. D. No. 5. Wisner, Neb. 

I rain Headquarters throughout the period ot training 

c ■ /^ 11 c- 1 /^ r 1 Probst, Bernard 409 Cedar St., Omaha, Neb. 

at Camp Sevier, Greenville, South Carolina, and 

COOIC 

Camp Coetquidan, France, and later on while serv- . ,^ ^ r- u c r- 

. ,, . Atterberv, David G Granleville. b. C 

ing the "All American Army" in the campaigns from WAGONERS 

August 22, 1918, to the signing of the Armistice on Ahrens, Frederick G R. F. D. No. 2, Nehawka, Neb. 

November 11, 1918. Campbell, Andrew G Wiggins, Colo. 



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Headquarters Motor Battalion 



Johnson, Sakel H R. F. D. No. 2, Lyons, Neb. 

Lamkin, Louis E 73 Calho-n St., Charleslon, S. C. 

Lee. Floyd H R. F. D. No. 3, Seymour. Mo. 

Miller, Edward J Scribner, Neb. 

Robertson, Owen T Greenville, Ky. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Bell, Harry E Stewart, Tenn. 

Bollinger, John Herried, S. D. 

Ferguson, Harry J R. F. D. No. 3. Scribner, Neb. 

Fleet, Edgar R Searles, Ala. 

Glasener, Yancey L Woodville, Ala. 

Harris, James T Russellville, Ala. 

Hawkins, Alfred E R. F. D. No. I, Brookline, Mo. 

Herman, George W R. F. D. No. I, Dallas, N. C. 

KOGER, ROBT. H R. F. D. No. I, Sulphuh Springs, Ala. 

Norton, Charles B Netherlands. Colo. 

Palmer, Ellie B Canady, Mo. 

Stewart, Clyde W Newcastle, Neb. 

PRIVATES 

Eddy, Grover F 319 Cherry St., Adrian, Mich. 

Brown, Henry D 599 W. 177th St., New York 

Dietrich, George H 156 Cayler St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

HiGGINBOTHAM, RussELL B Baxley, Ga. 

Miller, Curvin E Red Lion, Pa. 

Sutton, Clarence W 176 Mills St.. Athens, Ohio 

List of Men Sent to Training Camps 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 

Hait, Ashley B Address Unknown 



List of Men Who Have Come Into This 
Detachment Since Nov. M, 1918 

CAPTAIN 
Cunningham, Wm. F....3218 Cliff Road, Birmingham, Ala. 

FIRST LIEUTENANT 
Powers, John J 92 Reid St., Charleslon, S. C. 

SERGEANT 
Haight, Ashley B 41 Tradd St., Charleston, S. C. 

PRIVATE 
Lee, Frank A 124 W. 9th St., Oklahoma City, Okla. 

SERGEANTS 

Haight, Ashley B 41 Tradd St., Charleston, S. C. 

Hay. Oliver G 602 Meeting St.. Charleslon. S. C. 

PRIVATE. FIRST CLASS 
Scott. Elmer F R. F. D. No. 1, Plad. Mo. 

PRIVATES 

Gibson. James Nauvo, Ala. 

Gilliland, Dexter R. F. D. No. 1, N;wtonville, Ala. 

List of Men Who Died of Disease 

REGIMENTAL SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Ruus. Henry H.; Mr. H. H. Ruus (Father), 167 St. Philip 
St.. Charleston. S. C, 



The Ordnance Detachment 



The Ordnance Detachment of the 105th Ammuni- 
tion Train was organized September 4, 1917, by 
Special Orders of the 30th Division, and was placed 
under the command of Supply Officer Capt. H. L. 
Harllee, with an enhstcd personnel of twenty-three 
men. This Detachment was organized for the pur- 



pose of attending to the ordnance property of the 
105th Ammunition Tram. 

On April 20, 1918, First Lieut. Harry J. Dor- 
nan, Ordnance Officer, 105th Ammunition Train, re- 
organized the Detachment undor orders from Wash- 
ington, D. C, and took command of same. Under 



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the reorganization it had for its duties the repair and 
maintenance of the ammuntion trucks of the 105th 
Ammunition Train. Since then it has made over four 
hundred and fifty-seven major repairs, besides numer- 
ous smaller ones. 

ROSTER OF ORDNANCE DETACHMENT 

105th Ammunition Train 

ORDNANCE SERGEANTS 

Gamble, William G Kingslree. S. C. 

MiLER, Daniel S Summerville, S. C. 

Craig, Horace E Greenwood, S. C. 

SERGEANTS OF ORDNANCE 

Newnham, Chas. A 1410 Pickens St., Columbia, S. C. 

Greer, Allen B Duncan, S. C. 

Welling, Arthur L Darlington, S, C. 

CORPORALS OF ORDNANCE 

Knox, John J 250 Ashley Ave., Charleston, S. C. 

Manus, Will Olympia, S. C. 

PRIVATE, FIRST CLASS 

Norton, James C 201 Huger St., Columbia, S. C. 

PRIVATES 

Barnside, Marion T 610 Halley St., Columbia, S. C. 

Graves, Thomas W 368 W. 50th St., New \ork, N. Y. 

KlELY, Albert F 36 St. Market Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

La Motte, Henry J Darlington, S. C. 

Moore, James T 1770 77th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

MuszYNSKi, Joseph Lemoni, 111. 

ScHAEFER, Bernard J 4 North Euclid Ave., St. Louis 

ScHOCK, Roy 2475 Arlington Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

Smith, Herbert Liescester, England 

Thompson, H. B 52 Lock St., New Haven, Conn. 

Turner, Roscoe Greenville, S. C. 

Wilson, James R Darlington, S. C. 

List of Men Who Joined After No\'. 11, 1918 
privates 

Carson, Harvey B 101 1 Erie Ave., Williamsport, Pa. 

Dobson, Gail B Baxter Springs, Kans. 

Geringer. George R. F. D. 4, Box 443, Milleville, Pa. 

Fields, Samuel 238 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

Handy, Charles L R. F. D. 1, Durango. Col. 

List of Men Who Left Organization Prior 

TO Nov. 11. 1918 

ORDNANCE SERGEANT 

Eickmeyer. Henry Charleston, S. C. 

SERGEANTS OF ORDNANCE 

Miles, Allen Charleston, S. C, 

Moore, J, J Charleston, S. C. 

CORPORAL OF ORDNANCE 

Moore, J. B Charleston, S. C. 

Rose, William Columbia, S. C. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Parrott, Roy Darlington, S. C. 

Aaron, Robert Columbia, S. C. 

Wan Delkin, Edward A Charleston, S. C. 



PRIVATES 

Brown, Joe Charleston, S. C. 

Ford, Willie Columbia, S. C, 

Singleton, Roy Charleston, S. C. 

Passleigue, B Charleston, S. C. 

Young, E. R Columbia, S. C. 

Buchanan, Thomas Darlington, S. C. 

MouzON, R Kingstree, S. C. 

Nichols, J Tennessee 

Cole, Marion Charleston, S. C. 

Boone, John New Broolin, S. C. 

Rickard, Milton New Broolin, S. C. 

List of Men Who Died of Wounds or Gassed 

None 

List of Men Who Died of Disease or 

Accident 

SERGEANT OF ORDNANCE 

Welling, Arthur L.; next of kin Mr. A. L. Welling, 

Darlington, S. C. 

List of Men Killed in Action 

None 

List of Men Promoted from Ranks 

None 

List of Men Sent to Training Camps 

None 

e^ ^ IK 

ROSTER OF HEADQUARTERS DETACH- 
MENT, HORSED BATTALION 

105th Ammunition Train 
REGIMENTAL SUPPLY SERGEANT 

Hartin, George E New Brookland, S. C. 

BATTALION SERGEANT-M.AJOR 

Atkins, Albert A....3I13 Magnolia Ave., Knoxville, Tenn, 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 

Wollinc, Meredith R Allendale, S. C. 

SERGEANTS 

Holt, John C Darlington, S. C. 

RayNOR, Neil C New Brookland, S. C. 

CORPORALS 

Green, Haywood, Jr R. F, D. 2, Columbia, S. C. 

Pendergast, Harold D Darlington, S. C. 

MoziNGO, Carl N Darlington, S. C. 

HoDGKiNs, Cleveland V. D Route 3, Presque Isle, Me. 

Rhodes, Calhoun B 402 Green St., .'Xugusta, Ga. 

King, Campbell Hendersonville, N. C. 

PRIVATES. FIRST CLASS 

HoGAN, James L Asheville, N. C. 

Moore, William B Asheville, N. C. 

PRIVATES 

Carland, Ralph L Asheville, N. C. 

Green, Sam R. F. D. No. 2, Columbia, S. C. 

King, Kirkwood Hendersonville, N. C. 

Lang, GustaVE 1 Mt. Pleasant Place, Newark, N. J, 

MonTANI, MadORE J 9 Cherry St., Burlington, Vt. 

Rush, John P Olanta, S. C. 




Scenes at the Front 

(1) All the comforts of home in a German dug-out. (2) Sergt. Alvin C. York of Tennessee at the scene of his great adventure. (3) Ger- 
man dead. (4) Infantry going over the top. (5) Method of attack with tanks. (6) Captured German trenches. (7) A concrete pill-box, 
German. (8) American ration dump at Montfaucon. (9) Shells bursting on the road near Thiaucourl. (10) French 75 mounted on an 
American tractor. (11) Traveling de-luxe in France. (12) Shell shattered church used as a field hospital by American army. (13) Infantry 
advancing through German wire behind rolling barrage. (14) Wounded at a first-aid station awaiting transportation to the rear. 



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Staton, John L Darlington, S. C. 

Trull, Eugene R. F. D. 3, Edgewood, S. C. 

Attached for Dut\ 

SERGEANT 
Bates, Dawson L Blyi^ewood, S. C. 

FARRIERS 

KiRVEN, Julian L Dovesvllle, S. C. 

Riddle, James F New Brookland, S. C. 

PRIVATE. FIRST CLASS 

Abbott, Belton Perry, S. C. 

PRIVATES 
Allen, Edward Birmingham, Ala. 

AmaTO, SaLVATORE 124 Tell Sl, Providence, R. I. 

LajaMBA, Norman Address Unknown 

Stevens, Fred Savannah. Ga. 

SERGEANT 
KiRGORE, Arnold S Simpsonville, S. C. 

List of Men Who Came to Organization 

Since Nov. 11. 1918 

SERGEANT 

Bates, Dawson L Address Unknown 

CCOK 
Foster. Robert L Petersburg. Va. 

List of Men That Left Organization Prior 
to November 11, 1918 

BUGLER 

Floyd. Lewis. Jr Columbia, S. C. 

PRIVATES 

Jamison, Thomas W Nevir Brookland, S. C. 

WatTSK, John F Address Unknown 

Stapp, Harris Address Unknown 

Carson, Frank Address Unknown 

Trinkle, Address Unknown 

Guess, Address Unknown 

Heim, William R Address Unknown 

Speight, Address Unknown 

Wilkinson, Address Unknown 

McKlNNISH, Address Unknown 

Shoemaker, William E Address Unknown 

Prince, Francis M Columbia, S. C. 

McManUS, Joseph Address Unknown 

PRIVATE. FIRST CL.ASS 
Pace, James F Address Unknown 

BATTALION SERGEANT-MAJOR 
Talley. Andrew P Columbia, S. C. 

CORPORALS 

Marshall, Manuel M Mt. Airy, N. C. 

COTHRAN, Boss B R. F. D. 1, Hayesville, N. C. 

f?j S: Pa 

ROSTER OF SANITARY DETACHMENT 

105th Ammunition Train 

SERGEANT, FIRST CLASS 

Price, Thomas 2407 Jefferson Ave., Newport News, Va. 



SERGEANTS 

Fowler. Ben 116 Green St.. New Biookland, S. C. 

Morrison, Thomas McColl, S. C. 

*Shuler. James 7 Kuk;r St., Florence, S. C. 

PRIVATES. FIRST CLASS 

BuRNETTE. John Route 5. Knoxville. Tenn. 

Ensley, Bedford Beta, N. C. 

LocHER. Phillip Mascot. Tenn. 

Reeves. John Leicester. N. C. 

Sullivan, Frank Columbus. Neb. 

Wise. Percy Bennettsville. S. C. 

Weeks. Thurman Bryson City, N. C. 

PRIVATES 

BoWEN, John Route 3, Rocky Mount. N. C. 

Buchanan, Thomas 143 Spiing St.. Darlington, S. C. 

Cooper, Cecil Route 3, Nashville. N. C. 

Creekmore. Henry Route 2, Spring Hope, N. C. 

fDALE, William Tyner, N. C. 

Elder. William Route 2, Hiddenile, N. C. 

Hilton, Horace Liberty St., Winston-Salem, N. C. 

ElSON. MiLON 39 Fant Ave., Union. S. C. 

Hutchison, Alto Enterprise, Ala. 

■fJoRDAN, Willis Roanoke, Ala. 

JuNGERMAN, Theodore Genoa, Neb. 

Krohn, John Elgin, Neb. 

Painter, Beland. 1416 Linden Ave.. Knoxville, Tenn. 

Rutledge, Frank Spray, N. C. 

Sharpe, Clifford ?03 Adam St.. High Point, N. C. 

TiLLEY. Grover Speedwell. N. C. 

Young. Ernest 14 Lower St.. Columbia, S. C. 

List of Men Who Came to Organization 
Since Nov. 11, 1918 

None 

List of Men Who Left Organization Prior 

to Nov II, 1918 

PRIVATE 

Ward. James H Summerville. S. C. 

Injured by an ammunition truck w!iile on duty 

List of Men Who Died cf Wounds, Wounded 
or Gassed 

None 

List of Men Who Died of Disease 

None 

List of Men Who Died or Were Killed in 
Action 

None 

List of Men Promoted from Ranks 

None 

List of Men Sent to Training Camps 

None 

*Sergeant James M. Shuler was killed in wreck on Jan. 

21. 1919. 
fPrivates William L. Dale and Wil!is F. Jordan were also 

injured in wreck and have not returned to this organization. 







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Company A, 105th Ammunition Train 



The Sumter Guards, one of the companies com- 
posing the 105 th Ammunition Train, A. E. F., was 
undoubtedly under the protecting wing of a good 
Guardian Angel, for, so far as is known, this com- 
pany did not suffer a single casualty during the period 
of service in France. Before embarkation for overseas 
duty the company lost one member at Camp Sevier, 
who succumbed to an attack of pneumonia. The com- 
pany is officered by Captain J. Lawrence Gantt, First 
Lieutenant Thomas W. Perry, and acting Second 
Lieutenant Harry L. Thames, Jr. 

The Sumter Guards, known as Company A, First 
Battalion, 2d South Carolina Infantry, has a long and 
glorious record, as is shown in the following brief his- 
tory of the command, which was furnished by William 
G. Mazyck: 

The records of the early history of this company 
having been lost, it is impossible, at this time, to give 
with certainty the date of its organization. It was 
originally called the Jackson Guards and was probably 
founded in or about the year 1812. The earliest 
authentic record at present known is an advertisement 
in the Cilv Gazette of October 19, 1827, which is 
signed: "By order of Capt. Parker, Lloyd, Secre- 
tary." On January 1 , 1 830, the following some- 
what unusual notice appears in the same paper: 

"Jackson Guards and Cadet Riflemen. The 8th 
of January being the anniversary of the Jackson 
Guards and Cadet Riflemen, members intending to 
participate in the celebration will please call on the 
committees of their respective companies for tickets; 
rnd those unable to attend are required to give early 
notice. 

Jackson Guards, Thcs. Blacklock, Alex H. Brown, 
John Postell. 

Cadet Riflemen, John Ward, Alex H. Mazyck, 
Edw. S. Lovell. 

In 1832, owing to Jackson's unpopularity in this 
latitude, the name of the company was changed by 
an act of assembly from Jackson Guards to Sumter 
Guards. The company headquarters at that time 
were on Broad Street, in the vicinity of the Charles- 
ton Chamber of Commerce, and Capt. Stephen Elliott 
was in command. But little information can be ob- 
tained regarding the history of the corps from this time 
until the fall of I860, when, in view of the possible 



troublous times at hand, the company was reorganized 
under the command of Capt. John Russell, and was 
rapidly put in trim for actual service, and on April 
8, 1861, went into camp on Morris Island. On the 
morning of the 2d day of the bombardment of Fort 
Sumter the company was on duty at Battery Trapier, 
Cummmg's Point, and from a pamphlet containing 
an account of the battle published in this city a few- 
days after the fight we learn (p. 26) that: 

"The bright-quartered flag of the Marion Artillery 
floated proudly over the Trapier Battery during the 
whole of the bombardment. On Saturday morning 
when the men at the mortars were relieved by the 
Sumter Guards, the splendidly brodiered blue banner 
presented by some ladies (the Misses Milne) a short 
time ago to the company was placed side by side with 
the ensign of the Marion's, and the rest of the action 
was fought with both flags waving overhead. It was 
noticed as a singular coincidence that at the very 
moment when the emblems of the Game Cock and 
Swamp Fox were first fluttering together from the 
crest of the battery, the fire was discovered issuing 
from the parapet of Fort Sumter." 

Captain Russell's ill-health forced his retirement not 
many months after this and he was succeeded by Capt. 
Henry C. King, under whom the company continued 
in uneventful active service, as Company D, 27th 
S. C. v., at various points on the sea coast until June 
16, 1862, when in the bloody battle of Secessionville, 
Capt. King and four others were killed and twelve 
officers and men wounded. Lieut. J. Ward Hopkins 
succeeded to the command and under him the com- 
pany, after some months' duty in and around Charles- 
ton, was transferred to Virginia, where, in the trenches 
before Petersburg, exactly two years after Capt. 
King's death, Capt. Hopkins was killed, June 1 6, 
1864. 

After the war. during the dreadful days of recon- 
struction, young men, principally of Wards 4 and 6, 
met at the Masonic Hall and organized, in August, 
1869, a Rifle Club, "similar to that recendy organ- 
ized in the lower wards" (The Carolina Rifle Club) 
under the name of the Charleston Rifle Club, and 
elected Capt. B. G. Pinckney, president. The ante- 
bellum military companies gradually reorganized as 
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men. To avoid (he confusion likely to be created by 
the similarity of names, the Charleston Rifle Club, 
many of whose members had fallen away to rejoin 
their old commands, was reorganized m April, I87L 
as the Sumter Rifle Club, under the command of 
President Geo. H. Moffett, who was succeeded upon 
his untimely death in 1875 by Col. Edward Mc- 
Crady, during whose administration on November 3, 
1875, the survivors of the war members of the Sumter 
Guards attached themselves to the club. The flag of 
the guards was placed in the keeping of the club, and 
its name was altered to the Sumter Guards Rifle 
Club. At the same meeting Major T. A. Huguenin 
committed to the care of the club the remains of the 
last battle flag of Fort Sumter which had floated over 
its crumbled walls during the whole of the terrific sixty 
days' bombardment. This sacred relic, guarded with 
the most aff^ectionate reverence, holds a conspicuous 
place upon the walls of the armory. 

Soon after the establishment of the Hampton gov- 
ernment when the militia of the State was reorganized, 
the club organization was changed, its officers adopted 
full military titles, and under the name of the Sumter 
Guards, Mr. Frank E. Taylor was elected captain. 
Col. McCrady having declined the nomination. Under 
Captain Taylor the company commenced the careful 
drilling which has since distinguished it. October 15, 
1877, Capt. Taylor tendered his resignation and was 
succeeded by Lieut. D. Huger Bacot, who served only 
until April 12, 1878, when upon his resignation he 
was succeeded by Lieut. Wm. M. Burns, under whose 
command the company rapidly rose to the highest rank, 
repeatedly supporting its claim of superiority by win- 
ning the first place in every contest into which it entered. 
Capt. Burns resigned his office in 1879 and Lieut. 
Charles F. Hard was called to the command; under 
his lead the splendid record of the corps was ably 
sustained. In June, 1879, the company purchased 
the old U. S. hospital building on the Citadel Green 
and fitted it up as an armory, being the first military 
company in the State to own its own headquarters. 
The building was occupied until 1882, when it was 
sold and removed in order to carry out the extensive 
improvements which were then in progress on the 
square. In the following year the company purchased 
their present handsome armory on Hudson Street, 
occupying it for the first time on the 2 1 st of May, 
1883. 

In May, 1 885, Captain Hard resigned and on 



June 9, Lieut. Simeon Hyde, Jr., was elected in his 
stead. In May, 1886, the guards entered the com- 
petitive drill of the 4th Brigade, but met with their 
first real defeat, the German Fusiliers being their suc- 
cessful competitors. Capt. Hyde's admirable admin- 
istration of the affairs of the corps soon restored its 
lost prestige in a brilliant victory at the Greenville en- 
campment, and in a series of successful contests in rifle 
practices. Under Capt. Hyde's successors, Capts. C. 
M. Trott and W. B. Foster, this splendid esprit 
de corps was fully maintained, and notwithstanding 
the chilling influence of the Dick law, the long and 
successful incumbency of Captain, afterwards Major, 
and now Mayor T. T. Hyde, kept the company in 
the front rank of the National Guard as one of the 
best drilled bodies in the State, with certainly the 
foremost rifle team. Capt. Hyde was in turn succeeded 
by Capts. Silcox, Abernathy, Boinest and J. Law- 
rence Gantt, under the latter of whom the Guards 
served on the Mexican border, and, as far as was 
possible in the changed order of things, in the Great 
War "over there." 

In the Seminole War the company volunteered for 
active service under the command of Capt. Henry 
Gourdin, and thus during the century of its life has 
the corps sustained to the fullest, in every crisis by 
which it has been confronted, its proud motto, "In 
statione nostra parati." 

ROSTER OF COMPANY A 

105th Ammunition Train 

FIRST SERGEANT 

Thames, Harry L., Jr.. . .38- A Hassell St., Charleston, S. C. 

MESS SERGEANT 
BoiNEST, Edward H I Hahcy St.. Charleston. S. C. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Williams, David R 54 Montague St.. Charleston, S. C. 

SERGEANTS 

RoYALL, Wm. H 101 Tradd St., Charleston, S. C. 

Moore, Screven M 163 Broad St., Charleston, S. C. 

Reid, George M.. Jr 127 Bull St., Charleston, S. C. 

Johnson, Julien B., Jr 9 Gibbes St., Charleston, S. C. 

Glover, Thomas S Johns Island, S. C. 

Hutchunson, Wm. E....1I2 Beaufain St., Charleston, S. C. 
Lenoir, David G Horatio. S. C. 

CORPORALS 

Smith, John R., Jr 280 Calhoun St.. Charleston. S. C. 

Wilkins, George H Kingstree, S. C. 

Mew, George E Switzerland, S. C. 

Oliver, William C Mount Pleasant, S. C. 

Booth, Morsercai S.. . .R. F. D. 2, Box 61, Allsbrook, S. C. 



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Way, Clarence Dorchester, S. C. 

Anderson. Charles W Walierboro, S. C. 

Eriksson, Benjamin L Box I, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 

Lenoir, St. Pierre D Horatio, S. C. 

Thomanson, George T Lenoir, N. C. 

Hipps, Faraday M R. F. D. 4, Candler, N. C. 

Heins, John R., Jr Box I 18, Summerville, S. C. 

Fanning, William V Mitchell, Neb. 

RoDGERS, Harold E 174 Tradd St., Charleston, S. C. 

CradICK, John E 185 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, S. C. 

Thomas, Claude 1 18 Wentworlh St., Charleston, S. C. 

Watson, Thomas B Balesburg, S. C. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 
Lahmeyer, Clarence G....Box 18, North Charleston, S. C. 

COOKS 

SiMGLETON, Claude Hazelwood, N. C. 

Wolfe, Henry E Clay City, Ind. 

Elliott, Fred Maggie, N. C. 

BUGLERS 

Kaufman. Louis Ithaca, Neb. 

Peterson, Ernest C Herman, Neb. 

WAGONERS 

Anderson, Daniel C Walierboro, S. C. 

Allen, Harry H R. F. D. I, Fremont, Neb. 

Benfield, Lewis E Inman, S. C. 

B1SH0.P, Henry J Inman, S. C. 

Bowman, Ralph R Beemer, Neb. 

Brandmire, Clifford F Huron, S. D. 

Buss, Erwin F Rockham, S. D. 

Carraway. Mack G Andrews. S. C. 

Crawford. Charles H R. F. D. 3. York. S. C. 

Davis, Charles F Walierboro, S. C. 

Deas, Henry B Sumter, S. C. 

Edgar, Everad M Schuyler, Neb. 

Elder, Harry B Beemer, Neb. 

Elliott. Arthur C R. F. D. I, Georgetown. S. C. 

Gordon. Harry E Cresline. Kan. 

Harwick. James C Georgetown. S. C. 

Holmes. Horace Johnston. S. C. 

JosEY. Lewis L R. F. D. 3. Salisbury. N. C. 

Larson. Arthur H R. F. D. I. Herman, Neb. 

LiEB, John E 27 N. Church St., Bellville, 111. 

Nichols, Verlin G Hazlewood, N. C. 

Paulsen, Lorenz J R. F. D. 1, Bancroft, Neb. 

Perry, Donald D Summerville, S. C. 

Reese, William Ashland. Neb. 

Reeves. John G Waynesville. N. C. 

Robinson, Herbert R. F. D. 1, Canton, N. C. 

Robinson, William N Globe, .Ariz. 

Rose, Edwin A Rockham. S. D. 

Ross. Carris P R. F. D. 1. Shelby N. C. 

Sadler. Courtney K Macon. N. C. 

Scott. Clarence C Murray, Ky. 

Snow, John O R. F. D. 3, Pelzer, S. C. 

Stanley, Walter P 3507 Hamillon St., Omaha, Neb. 

Warren, Harold E 37 Blake St.. Charleston. S. C. 

Wyatt. Francis A Hazelwood. N. C. 



PRIVATES. FIRST CLASS 

Anderson. Helmer Salem, S. D. 

Bedwell, Thomas W Ellington, Mo. 

Bennett, J.^mes W Chonia. Mo. 

Blocker, Walter R 37 Race St.. Charleston. S. C. 

Brasch. Herman R. F. D. 4. \)i'esi Point, Neb. 

Brisben, John M Wisner, Neb. 

Brooks, Merne E Elborn, S. D. 

BuRRis, William T Bucyrus, Mo. 

Carter, Henry E Sikeslon, Mo. 

Cl,ark, Eugene St. Francisville. Mo. 

Clark. Harley R. F. D. 2, Clyde. N. C. 

Davis. Enoch L Arno. Mo. 

FoRTNER. Millard B Hazelwood. N. C. 

FrancoUER. AdelaRD J 91 Reid St.. Manchester. N. H. 

Hastings. Clark W Merino. Col. 

Hembree. Francis M R. F. D. 2, Waynesville, N. C. 

Kellis, Joseph Lynchburg, Ohio 

KiMBERLiN, Rubin C Wray, Col. 

LeBou. Charles 1015 East Filmore St.. Phoenix. Ariz. 

McCoNNELLE, Floyd L 308 Manly St., Greenville, S. C. 

McKnight, Willie G Wilsons, S. C. 

NUSSEL, E. J R. F. D. F, Box 132, Terre Haute, Ind. 

Palmateer, Stanley M R. F. D. 1, Temple, Ariz. 

Patch, Harvey L Newcastle, Col. 

Patterson, James P Red Top, Mo. 

Phillips, Fletcher M R. F. D. 5, Boaz, Ala. 

Phillips, Matthew L Middlesex, N. C. 

Schroder, Carl A R. F. D. 2, Box 46, Florence, Neb. 

Shelton, William H Carlisle, Ind. 

Shores, Hallie R. F. D. D, Terre Haute, Ind. 

Shreeve, Charlie H Calhoun. Mo. 

Smith. Frank L Box 45, Wasiota, Ky. 

Steel. Claude East Prairie. Mo. 

Stehr, John D Oran. Mo. 

Stokes. Frank W Elmwood. Neb. 

Sullivan, Harry R. F. D. 3, Carbon, Ind. 

Trull. Charles G Canton. N. C. 

Worth. Harrison Jasonville. Ind. 

PRIVATES 

Barnes. Dan O Shelby. Ala. 

Bauer. Henry E 929 Alton St.. Alton, III. 

BoVE, John 605 Lenora St., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Brasier, Archie Zelma, Mo. 

Brewer, Edward B McColl, S. C. 

Bromley, Orville H Osgood, Ind. 

Buchanan. James O Webster. N. C. 

Burgess. Dan D Gila Bend. Ariz. 

Creasman. Crawford Waynesville. N. C. 

Frady, Harvey J Gaslonia, N. C. 

Guess, Henry B Salters, S. C. 

Haney, Benjamin H Waynesville, N. C. 

Havnes, Andrew C Denum Branch, Greensboro. N. C. 

Hemingway. William T Hemingway. S. C. 

Henry. Thomas R. F. D. 2. Seymour. Neb. 

Hilton. Walter M Golden, Mo. 

Holmes. Geo. W R. F. D. 2. Box 127. Ml Olive, N. C. 

Holliday. Clarence Fort Hill, Pa. 



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HuTCHiNs, Luther Chipley, Fla. 

Inman, Ules Canton, N. C. 

King, Roy R. F. D. 3, Ozark, Mo. 

KuLA, William Fort Morgan, Col. 

Laderer, Herbert J Oldham, S. D. 

Li Prague, Julius C. Jr Salters Depot, S. C. 

McCullers, Edgar W Clayton, N. C. 

McMuNN, Dee Kennctt, Mo. 

Melow, Stanley Greenfield, 111. 

MlNOTT, Ernest L Sta. 28. Sullivan's Island, S. C. 

MoRAN, Elmer J 2632 Capilol Ave.. Omaha, Neb. 

Parsons, Kenneth C . 16 Parkwood Ave., Charleston, S. C. 

Price, Leonard W Seneca, S. C. 

Reeves, Wm. A Box 566, Waynesvllle, N. C. 

Rice, William C Orleans, Ind. 

Robertson, William F Oskaloosa, Mo. 

Ruby, Wm. E 213 N. Traub St., Indianapolis, Ind. 

ScHUERMAN, FREDERICK H Cottonwood, Ariz. 

Smith, Pearl R Route F, Box 187. Terre Haute, Ind. 



Sutton, James Dillsboro, N. C. 

Trinkle, Herman W Cumberland City, Tenn. 

Woody, Grover C R. F. D. 1, Clyde, N. C. 

List of Men Who Joined Organization 
Since Nov. H, 1918 

CORPORAL 
Shippy. Chester A 524 1st Ave., N.. Oelwein, Iowa 

PRIVATES 

Rabinovitz, Max 649 Treble Ave., N.S., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Randels. John P 328 N. <5th St., Terre Haute, Ind. 

List of Men Who Left Organization Prior 
TO Nov. II, 1918 

WAGONER 
Haynes, Wayman H Oakway, S. C. 

PRIVATE 
Webb, Fred B Hayti, Mo. 



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Company B, 105th Ammunition Train 



Company B, 105th Ammunition Train, 30th 
Division, American Expeditionary Forces, is better 
known in its home, Charleston, South Carolina, as the 
Washmgton Light Infantry. 

This company was organized in 1807, when the 
martial spirit of the land was being aroused and later 
fanned into flame by the indignities heaped upon our 
country by the British taking our citizens from our 
ships and pressing them into her own marine and naval 
service. 

Its first captain was the eminent statesman and dis- 
tinguished Carolinian, William Lowndes, who was 
succeeded by a long line of officers from the very 
highest and best citizenship of Charleston, S. C, its 
last and present war commander being Capt. H. O. 
Withington, of the 105th Ammunition Train, 30th 
Division, A. E. F. 

It has had a continuous existence from its birth to 
the present time, serving its city. State and govern- 
ment faithfully and zealously, both in peace and in 
war. It furnished two full companies in the Florida 
or Seminole War. Though not allowed to go as an 
organization in the Mexican War, its officers and men 
constituted the greater part of one of the companies 
of the Palmetto Regiment, which placed its flag on 
the walls of Chapultepec. In the Civil or Confed- 
erate States War it furnished three full companies and 
left I 14 men on the field. 

In peace it has always been foremost in everything 
pertaining to the uplift and betterment of the com- 
munity. 

They were designated to assist in receiving and en- 
tertaining LaFayette upon his visit to this country. 

The widow of the Revolutionary hero. Colonel 
William Washington, placed in the custody of this 
company the famous Eutaw Flag which inspired the 
American militia patriots to the deeds of valor which 
stopped the invading British in the swamps of South 
Carolina and made possible the final victory at ^'ork- 
town. This flag is still in possession of this company, 
its most treasured possession. 

Promptly after the close of the Civil War this 
company began to look after the widows and orphans 
of its dead heroes, and in 1868 a substantial pension 



fund was raised. Its war widows and orphans still 
receive assistance from this source. 

In 1875, though sectional feeling was still high in 
our land, this company boldly accepted the invitation 
and attended the ceremonies of the Centennial of the 
Battle of Bunker Hill — probably the first organization 
of any kind, certainly the first military organization, 
to grasp hands with their former foes across the Mason 
and Dixon line, the first step towards the cementing 
together of our whole country into one people, the 
culmination of which was so unmistakably demon- 
strated in the great World War. 

It was due largely, almost entirely, to the untiring 
efforts of all the members of this company that the 
"Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina," 
was reopened in 1 88 1 . When one thinks of the 
great number of graduates of this institution who 
helped win the war, the Washington Light Infantry 
might well be proud, even had the company itself done 
no more. 

In 1916-17, under call of the President, it served 
on the Mexican frontier, and again on July 25, 
1917, under another call of the President it proudly 
responded for service in the World War. The record 
of this service is elsewhere and in more detail given 
in this volume. After the company had left home for 
the front, those members who, by reason of age or 
other causes, were not permitted by the government to 
undertake to serve in the field, following the example 
of their forbears under similar conditions in the Civil 
or Confederate States War, promptly organized and 
maintained a company under State control for the pro- 
tection of their homes and firesides — every member 
nursing a vain hope that the government might give 
him a chance to serve as did the government in 
the 60's. 

The company returned on the transport "Konigen 
der Nederlanden" March 26lh, 1919, and all the 
shipping in Charleston harbor, loaded to the gunwales 
with humanity, went out to meet and greet the boys, 
while every available space on the shoreline of the 
city of Charleston, S. C, was occupied by some one, 
all shouting and laughing and weeping a warm wel- 
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ROSTER OF COMPANY B 

105th Ammunition Train 

FIRST sergeant 

Trenholm, Claude J 40 President St., Charleston, S. C. 

MESS SERGEANT 
RuMPH, William G R. F. D. No. 1, St. George, S. C. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Means, Robt. M., Jr II Colonial St., Charleston, S. C. 

SERGEANTS 

Fennell, James E Hampton, S. C. 

Stout, Thomas D Box No. 323 Summervllle, S. C. 

LeCette, William J Centenary, S. C. 

McElhenney, Louis G 145 Spring St., Charleston, S. C. 

LoWRY, James C Summerviile, S. C. 

Sides, Arthur H Gen. Del., Greenville, S. C. 

Lemacks, Francis G., Jr Box No. 333, Bamberg, S. C. 

CORPORALS 

Wohlers, H. C, Jr 79 East Battery, Charleston, S. C. 

CoplestON, Wm. O 89 Society St., Charleston, S. C. 

Schmidt, John D 308 King St., Charleston, S. C. 

Prosser, Louis 309 Chuds St., Florence, S. C. 

Sims, Marion E Strawberry, S. C. 

Ward, B. E., Jr.. . .R. F, D. No. 2, Bos 88, Effingham, S. C. 

Salley, Willie A I Atlanilc St , Charleston, S. C. 

Bath, Edwin 1510 Front St , Georgetown, S. C. 

Addison, Roy B Walterboro, S. C. 

Graham, John H 225 Rutledge Ave., Charleston, S. C. 

Smith, George L 252 E. Houston St.. New York, N. Y. 

Walters, Clarence T Park Ave., Tifton, Ga. 

Zeicler, William I St. George, S. C. 

Hesse, Raymond N 26 Lawrence St., Charleston, S. C. 

Shopmeyer, Ervine E R. F. D. No. I, Poland, Ind. 

Brown, Earl S Greer. S. C. 

Barry, Everette F Malmo, Neb. 

COOKS 

Williams, Lee Canton. N. C. 

Lemacks, Alfred J Box No. 333, Bamberg, S. C. 

Eagle, Robert F R. F, D. No. I, Statesville. N. C. 

MECHANIC 

Orpin. John G Tremont Park. West Asheville. N. C. 

BUGLER. FIRST CLASS 
Utsey, Willis K Grover. S. C. 

BUGLER 

HarTSELL. Ray E Box No. 67. Greenville. S. C. 

WAGONERS 

Adams. Junius J Whiieville. N. C. 

Beam, William W 248 Da\ie Ave., Statesville. N. C. 

Brown, Erma A R. F. D. No. 2, Beatrice, Neb. 

Byrd. Irwin P. O. Box No. 24, Elizabethtown, N. C. 

Clince, Coy C 77 Society St., Charleston, S. C. 

Dyre. Jerrimier H Buffalo. S. C. 

Forbes, Noah C Shawboro. N. C. 

Halverson. LeRoy R. F. D. No. 3. Fulerlon. Neb. 

Haug. John M Pappilion. Neb. 



Harris, William A Liberty, S. C. 

Hoover, Clifton Neeses. S. C. 

Huffman, Charles T Rich Mountain, N. C. 

Ilsley, William H....3I4 W. Carpenter St., Springfield, III. 

Jernigan, Robert R R. F. D. No. I. Cordova. S. C. 

Johnson. McLaurin 68 B. Reid St.. Charleston. S. C. 

Kales. William D Wando. S. C. 

LeCette. Ashley S Taylorsville, N. C. 

Mitchum. Jervey N Wando. S. C. 

Murray. Walter S 3|l/'2 Reid St., Charleston, S. C. 

Owes, William O Pregnalls, S. C. 

PuckhABER, Clarence D.. . .51 Cannon St., Charleston, S. C. 
PuTMAN, Clarence L. C . .Route No. 1, Waynesvllle, N. C. 

Reilly. William Roadhouse. 111. 

Rudd. Jake L St. George. S. C. 

Scurry. George C Georgetown. S. C. 

Sheider, John M R. F. D. No. I, Si. George, S. C. 

Sherrill, Garrett W Deertrall, S. C. 

Singleton, William R Conway, S. C. 

StanLAND, SaMER H., Jr McClellanville, S. C. 

Timple, Karl E 351 W. 14th St., Freemont, Neb. 

Varnedoe, Richard R 10 Welters St., Walterboro, S. C. 

Weeks, Charles B R. F. D. No. 2, Round, S. C. 

Weeks, William P R. F. D. No. 2, Round ,S. C. 

PRIN'.ATES, FIRST CLASS 

Anderson, Otto R. F. D. No. 3, Molmo, S. Dak. 

Albrecht, Edward Box No. 14 Hosmer, S. Dak. 

Ball, Abram E Arlington, Colo. 

Blomberg, William Astoria, S. Dak. 

Chaplin, Barnwell R.. .6 E. Fishburns St., Charleston, S. C. 

CiHACEK, Louis E Linwood, Neb. 

Collier, Marion D Orangeburg, S. C. 

EiCHNER, William J R. F. D. No. 3, Gretna, Neb. 

Feerick, James Salem, S. Dak. 

Filbach, Arthur Wecota, S. Dak. 

Hannah. Albert D Ola, N. C. 

Herzinger, Joseph R R. F. D. No. I, Beemer, Neb. 

Jaques, Tannie W 432 King Sl., Charleston, S. C. 

JaRRELL, Adam A R. F. D. 8, Box 71, Dexter, Mo. 

Johnson, Marshall R Gen. Del., Alton, 111. 

Jones, Alva L Berryrus, Mo. 

Kinder, George W 2625 X Y St., Omaha, Neb. 

King. Ernest C R. F. D. No. 3, West Asheville, N. C. 

Larson, Kimball E '. . .R. F. D. No. 3, Hooper, Neb. 

McFarland, Russell Culver, Ind. 

Mitchum, Samuel R Wando, S. C. 

Pepple, Jesse S Grindstone, S. Dak. 

Piper. Rollie L Urba. Mo. 

Rudolf, George H R. F. D. No. I, Palmer, Neb. 

SchOFIELD, VerNIE A Kirksville, Mo. 

Schwab, George J 604 Chicago .Ave., Brazil, Ind. 

Seiker, Edward T Elmwood, Neb. 

ScHARF, Frank L Valparaiso, Neb. 

Shaw, Wm. R Box 33. Xyemera, Sullivan County. Ind. 

Trawick. Clarence B Linton. Ga. 

Vernon. Robert E Georgetown. S. C. 

Wagers. Nollie E St. George. S. C. 

Ward, Baron S Effingham, S. C. 



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Ward, Jennings B R. F. D. 1, Box 83, Marlon, N. C. 

Wegner, Alva H Cresbard, S. Dak. 

Welty, Abram E Cedar Edge, Colo. 

Woods, Gail Sucemonee, Colo. 

PRIVATES 

Adams, General L Norman, Mo. 

BiLODEAU, Joseph B 53 Cedar Si., Lewislon, Me. 

Bolden, Samuel A Maithews, Mo. 

Beck, Joe Youni, Mo. 

Carter, Green W Wilcox, Ariz. 

Chafin, William E Bisbee, Ariz. 

CoLWELL, Francis J Brush, Colo. 

Davis, John L Taneyville, Mo. 

DoLAN, Edward M 3420 S. 26ili St., Omaha, Neb. 

Freeman, William F Waynesville, N. C. 

FocHT, Clarence E Huntingdon, Pa. 

Garrett, Robert 109 Rulledge Ave., Charleston. S. C. 

Gay, John W Highlandville, N. C. 

Gentry, David Creswell, N. C. 

Greggs, Ray J 2623 Jefferson St., Terre Haute, Ind. 

Hale, Henry N Littleton, Cole. 

Hall, Ransom R. F. D. No. 1. Autreyville, N. C. 

Hall, Ross Faison, N. C. 

Hassell, Joe R. F. D. No. 1, Box 93, Creswell, N. C. 

Hicks, Grover M Sylnavia, Ala. 

HoLDEN, Clyde Licking, Mo. 

Jackson, Mack Edgefield, S. C. 

Jaques, Myrtie R St. George, S. C. 

KaUS, Herry 211 Lampert Ave., Alton, 111. 

Kelley, Samuel I Hand Coun'y, Bailey, S. Dak. 

Jennerly, Cecil L R. F. D. 1. Box 32, Cope, S. C. 

Knight, Adam P R. F. D. No. 3. Maiden, N. C. 

Lucas, John H R. F. D. No. 1, Terre Haute, Ind. 

McKenzie, Melvin R R. F. D. 8, Brazil, Ind. 

Olson, Norvin A St. Edward, Neb. 

Parker, John F R. F. D. 2, Box 52, Warren, Ark. 

Pearson, Wavley H Judson Mill, Greenville, S. C. 

Price, Frank Maggie, N. C. 



Price, Otto E R. F. D. No. 2, Mason City, Neb. 

SeamsTER, Arvie O Sentinel, Mo. 

Sellers, Lenard V Dugger, Ind. 

Sexton, George C Jasonville, Ind. 

Snyder, Ray H 949 Morrel St., Freemont, Neb. 

SwEARINGEN, Ross O R. F. D. No. !, Staunton, Ind. 

Varn, Harry St. George, S. C. 

Walls, Perry C Sullivan, Ind. 

McDerMOTT, W. J.... 7 137 Franklintown Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Attached to Company B 

SERGEANTS 

Polk, Warren M Sidney, Iowa 

Snyder, Clifford W Glidden, Iowa 

Men Who Joined Organization Since 
Nov. IE 1918 

PRIVATE 
Aman, Edwin Route 2, Box 41 -A, Java, S. D. 

Men Who Left Organization Prior to 
Nov. IE 1918 

SERGEANT 
Bowman, LeRoy S Argyle Hotel. Charleston, S. C. 

PRIVATES 

Aman, Edwin Route 2, Box 41 -A, Java, S. D. 

Gatch, Irving Round, S. C. 

Died of Disease 

PRIVATE 
FoCHT, Clarence E.; Died Feb. 18, 1919, Camp Hosp. No. 
52, Le Man;, France. Cause, Broncho Pneumonia. Next 
of km. Miss Mary Focht (sister) Huntingdon, Pa. 

Men Sent To Training Camp 

PRIVATE 
Bowman, LeRoy S Artillery School, Saumur, France 



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Company C, 1 05th 



Company C. 105th Ammunition Train, just re- 
turnmg from France, a part of the 30th Division 
participatmg in the World War, was organized 
in 1791, and at the outbreak of this World's 
War was numerically stronger than any company m 
the Charleston Battalion. The officers were T. R. 
Garety, Captain, and J. J. Powers and Lawrence A. 
Clair, First and Second Lieutenants. 

Previously the company, answering the call of the 
government, took part in the Mexican trouble, remain- 
ing on the border from June, 1916, to March, 1917, 
when it was relieved from the service, to agam enlist 
in the Great War. The officers were T. R. Garety, 
Captain, and Jno. P. Sullivan and Wm. E. King, 
First and Second Lieutenants. 

During the War Between the States the company 
was commanded by Captain Edward Magrath and 
was a part of the Charleston Battalion. Captain Ma- 
grath was succeeded by Captam Wm. H. Ryan, who 
was killed at the siege of Battery Wagener, after 
which Captain James M. Mulvany commanded the 
company. An additional company, also known as 
the Irish Volunteers, was organized under Captain 
Edward McCready and was attached to the First 
South Carolina Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia. 
Captain McCready being promoted to Major, Captain 
M. P. Parker succeeded to the command. Captain 
Parker, being incapacitated from wounds, James 
Armstrong became Captain and remamed in command 
to the end of the conflict. Col. Armstrong still sur- 
vives, and bears with honor the marks of his intrepid 
valor, but with it all never losing his good humor. 

General McCready, the first Captain, was a dis- 
tinguished lawyer and legislator and South Carolina 
historian. 

The history of the Irish Volunteers is replete with 
its great renown for valor and bravery and they were 
ready and willing at all times to respond to the defense 
of South Carolina and our glorious reunited union, 
freest republic in the world, and a part of the history 
of the past of Charleston. 



Ammunition Train 

ROSTER OF COMPANY C 
105th Ammunition Train 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Landers, Claude P 1306 Greene St., Augusta, Ca. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Brown, Charles A 228 Spring St., Charleston, S. C. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 

CoNRoy, Raymond L. . .51 S. Alexander St., Charleston, S. C. 

SERGEANTS 

Due, Harry A 166 Cannon Si, Charleston. S. C. 

Moore, Arthur B 21 Cooper St., Charleston, S. C. 

Priester, Frank E 629 King St., Charleston, S. C. 

Nauful, George C I 103 Richland St., Columbia, S. C. 

DicKMEYER. Frederick 410 W. Lincoln St., Blair, Neb. 

TeagUE, WlLLlA.M P 94 N. Reid St.. Charleston, S. C. 

Bailey, Carl C -. . . 1319 S. 3rd Sl. Terre Haute, Ind. 

CORPORALS 

Moore, John M 21 Cooper St.. Charleston, S. C. 

Brady, Albert L Oran, Mo. 

Lee, Kenneth T 189 Calhoun St., Charleston, S. C. 

Calvert, James T 300 E. Main St., Spartanburg, S. C. 

CoGClNS, Leon/RD C 197 Aiken St, Chester, S. C. 

Harper, William R Rou'e A, Box 244, Evansville, Ind. 

Martin, Clinton L R. F. D. 6, Winchester, Ky. 

Kerns, Augustus A Sharpsburg, Ky. 

ScocGiNs, Clyde A White Hall, 111. 

West, James P White Stone. Spartanburg Co., S. C. 

Brown, George C Spicer, Col. 

Hay, Oliver G 602 Meeting St., Charleston, S. C. 

Cook, Clifford C 861 Oak St.. Macon, Ga. 

Lebel, Alfred E 103 Shawmut St.. Lewislon, Me. 

MoDESlTTE. Russell L.. . .709 N. 14th St, Terre Haute, Ind. 
LovEALL. George W Carbon, Ind. 

COOKS 

Savarese, C. J.. . .McDar.el & Cleveland St.. Greenville. S. C. 

FisHER, William P Route 5, .^^sheville, N. C. 

Cole, Myron W 13-B Saciely St., Charleston, S. C. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 
Leopold. Joseph A 42 St. Philip St.. Charleston. S. C. 

W.AGONERS 

Altman, Earnest B 169 Spring Si., Charleston. S. C. 

Arms, Robert L Ml. Pleasant, S. C. 

Aytes, Henry B 23 Cooper St., Charleston, S. C. 

Barrineau, Leon E 24^2 Cooper St., Charleston. S. C. 

Bollinger. Albert L R. F. D. 2. Advance, Mo. 

Box, John A Elmwood, Neb. 

Demuth. George P 313 Monument St., Alton, 111. 

DuNLAP, Robert N 567 Meet ng St., Charleston. S. C. 

EastERLING, Pierce F 25 Amherst St.. Charleston. S. C. 

Edwards, William 23 Bertha St., Charleston, S. C. 



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Elv. Harold Spnngfield, Neb. 

Fleming, Frank L Ml. PleasanI, S. C. 

Frailey, Emert R. F. D. 2, Tindlay, III. 

Gillespie, Michael 3629 S. 24lh Soulhside, Omaha. Neb. 

Hart, Edd F R. F. D. 1, Sullivan, Ind. 

Helzer. John H R. F. D. 1 , Libory, Neb. 

Jones, Barney 26 Cooper St., Charleston, S. C. 

Ladehoff, Gilbert C Norlh Bend, Neb. 

Longbrake, Claude L Hebron, Neb. 

Moore, Charles J 21 Cooper S:., Charleslon. S. C. 

MussELLMAN, Harry E Manchester, Md. 

McCarthy, Richard J Elkton, S. D. 

McLaughlin, John, Jr St. Malthews, S. C. 

Salvo, Arleich E Ladson, S. C. 

Sehlincer, William J 612 E. 8ih St., Belle\ille, III. 

Strange, John H .Allendale, S. C. 

Sullivan, Evan W Macedonia, HI. 

Teague, John J 94 N. Reid St., Charleston, S. C. 

TePoel, Frederick C Malmo, Neb. 

Wallace, Robert E.. Jr 31 Nassau St., Charleslon, S. C. 

Witt, Rudolph Scribner, Neb. 

BUGLERS 

Hogan, Michael L 113 Drake St., Charleston, S. C. 

Barrineau, Clarence L 12 Romney St., Charleslon S. C. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Brazeau, Arthur 21 Union St., North Adams, Mass. 

Carr, James G Fou'e 7, Lamar, Mo. 

Clair, James M Jopiin, Mo. 

CosTALIN, Edward A 719 N. 4th Ave., Grand Jet., Colo. 

CzARNiCK, John V Route 4, Box 73, Genoa, Neb. 

Decker, John H 4212 Pierce St., Omaha, Neb. 

Dixon, Samuel J 23 Wenlworth St., Charles:on, S. C. 

EthRIDGE. T. W Box 1298, Clifton. Greenlee Co., Ariz. 

Fessler, Edward W R. F. D. 4, Alton, III. 

Grohn, Hugo R. F. D. I , Yutan, Neb. 

HoLSAPPLE, William L Lusk, Wyo. 

HoRNBECK, Sam R. F. D. 1, Merion. Ind. 

Lakev, Jack Ava, Mo. 

Meeks, Dobert M R. F. D. 1, Rocky Point. N. C. 

Melfl Walter J 715 King St., Charleston, S. C. 

Merton, John T Cornlea, Neb. 

McDermott, Vincent J.. .97J 2 Nassau St., Charleslon, S. C. 

Newton, Amos B Lilbourn, Mo. 

MizzELL, ViRTIs M 31 Blake St., Charleslon, S. C. 

PavONE. CanIO 428 Bridge St., Trenton, N. J. 

Pearison, Isaac R. F. D. 5. Sullivan. Ind. 

Pennington, Lee R R. F. D. 2, lantha. Mo. 

Reindl, Peter R Wessing'.cn Springs, S. D. 

Scott, Elmer F Jumas, Mo. 

Seyle. Earnest E 567 Meeting St.. Charleston. S. C. 

Shaffer. Nelden M Otiumwa. Haikon Co.. S. D. 

Sheppard. Frank Farmersburg, Ind. 

Skvles, John O Cabool. Mo. 

Smith, Percy 6 Baine St., Orangeburg, S. C. 

Tillman. John R 115 America Si., Charleslon, S. C. 

Watts, Earnest E Hayti, Mo. 

Wilkinson. F. B 5011.2 Meeting St.. Charleston, S. C. 



PRIVATES 

AcKERMAN. Casper H R. F. D. 1, Wolbach, Neb. 

Adkison, Lilburn L Liching, Mo. 

Anderson, Elmer L 521 E. 8th St.. Loveland, Col. 

Austin. Jesse E R. F. D. 1, Box 2-.A. Okmulgee. Okla. 

Barrineau. Wm. T 12 Romney St., Charleston, S. C. 

Beattie, Julian E 61 Nassau St.. Charleston, S. C. 

BuRK, Archa M Canalon, Mo. 

Catron, Jasper E Route 3, Box 102, Cass.ille, Mo. 

DiERS, Robert, Jr Route 5, West Point, Neb. 

E.AST, Walter C Care R. A. Mulliniks, Edgemont, Ark. 

Gebhardt, Henry R Haswell, Col. 

Griffis, Ch.-rles Box 56, Meggslts, S. C. 

HanDLEY, RufUS . Garey, Neb. 

Hays, Alvin A Larissa. Mo. 

Hoover. Marcus L Clear Lake. S. D. 

Horn, William H 85 St. Philip St., Charleslon. S. C. 

Kennedy. H. J 126 Highland Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 

Keeran. Joseph W Webster. Kans. 

LaCoste. Henry L 22 Fishbume St.. Charleslon. S. C. 

Lovelady. Earnest R. F. D. 2, Beemer. Neb. 

LowRY. Charles R. F. D. 3. Orangeburg. S. C. 

Maloney. Charles F 12 Wiho.T St.. Pitlsfield. Mass. 

Mara, Frank Denver. Colo. 

MoNDONARO, Onifrio 344 W. 37th St., New York. N. Y. 

Morris. Jodie E R. F. D. 1, Bloomfield. Mo. 

McDonald, Daniel W R. F. D. 2, Lillington, N. C. 

Nance. Henry D Garrison. Mo. 

Orsborne. Ray V 718 Dallard St., Greensboro, N. C. 

O'Malley, Charles A 4814 Ravine Ave., Cleveland, O. 

Parker, John Marion, N. C. 

Pearson, George Sullivan Co., Shelbum, Ind. 

Peeples, Abe R R. F. D. 1, Vamville, S. C. 

Peeples, Harry A 1 102 S. 13th St., Birmingham, Ala. 

Posey. Claude C 431 Forest St., Spartanburg, S. C. 

Prine, James A R. F. D. I. Box 54. Ravenel, S. C. 

PULCINI. Joseph 9 Winchester St., Boston, Mass. 

Ray, Sidney H R. F. D. 1, Haydenburg, Tenn. 

Sanderson, Grover Deep Run, N. C. 

SiFFORD, Walter Bloomfield. Mo. 

SiNGLETARY, Ubie 65 Drake St.. Charleslon. S. C. 

SiRCY. Asa R. F. D. 1, Defeated, Tenn. 

Steen. Leonard A Big Lake. Ark. 

Sweatman. Gussie H Ladson. S. C. 

Thomas, Frank R. F. D. 3, Bishopville, S. C. 

Thompson. Charles S R. F. D. 1. Concord, N. C. 

ToRiNA. Mike Woodside. La. 

Utecht. Albert H Coleharbor. N. D. 

Waskal. Tony 3220 33rd Si., Omaha. Neb. 

Webber, Andrew 44 Pitt St., Charleston, S. C. 

Wees, Frank M R. F. D., Clarks, Neb. 

Williams, Doctor P R. F. D. 2, Clarendon. N. C. 

Williams. Nick R. F. D. 2, Box 30. Hallsv.lle. N. C. 

Men Who Joined Org4nization Since 
Nov. 11. 191 S 

CAPTAIN 
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SERGEANT 
Whitesides, Paul P King's Ml. St., York, S. C. 

CORPORALS 

BissoN, Leon J Box 30. 105 Pine St., Berlin, N. H. 

Shippy, Chester A 524 1st Ave., N., Oelwein, Iowa 

WAGONER 
Jackson. Isaac H Gen Del.. Cory, Ind. 

PRIVATE 
SuMMERAL, ClevE Gen. Del., Waterlown, Fla. 

Men Sent to Training Camps 
SERGEANTS 

BuRMElsTER, Louis E 7 New St., Charleslon, S. C. 

Prause, Carl W. T 16 Bogard Sl. Charleslon. S. C. 

Men Promoted From the Ranks 

BuRMEISTER. Louis E., 2nd Lieut. Infantry; sent to Camp Lee. 

Virginia, as instruc'or. 
PraUSE, Carl W. T., 2r-d Lieut. Infantry; assigned to Co. 

"T", I I8lh Infantry, 30th Division. 

Died of Disease 

Stine, Alfred L., Private; died Dec. 21, 1918. at Base Hos- 
pital No. 17. APO 721. France. Cause, lobar pneumonia. 
Next of kin. Mrs. Mary E. Parson. 911 N. Walker St., 
Webb City. Mo. 



List of Men That Left Organization Prior 
TO Nov. 11, 1918 

MESS SERGEANT 

Jellico, John P 108 Columbus St.. Charleslon, S. C. 

Dropped Sept. 28. 1918 

PRIVATE 

Mara. Frank Denver, Col. 

Transferred. 

WAGONERS 

Lamkin. Louis E 74 E. Reid St.. Charleston, S. C. 

Transferred to Headqiartcrs Mo'or Battalion. Aug. 2. 1918 

Boniface. John F 11 Cleveland St.. Charleston. S. C. 

Transferred to Hosp. No. 9. Oct. 2. 1918 

CORPORAL 

Pearson. Joseph V Artesian, S. D. 

Summeral. Cleve Address Unknown 

Transferred lo American Ba;e Hospital. Winchesler, Eng. 

Lamkin, Louis E., Transferred to Headquarters Motor Bat- 
talion. 105lh Ammunition Tram. 

Eddv. GrovER F.. Transferred. 

Jellico. John P. Dropped from rolls Sept. 28. 1918. 

Whitesides. Paul P. Transferred lo Evacuation Hospital 
No. 16. Dropped from rolls Nov. 24. 1918. 

Kennedy, Harold L. J. Transferred to Field Hospiial 132. 

Mora. Frank. Transfeired to Base Hospiial No. 81. Dropped 
from rolls. 




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Company D, 105th 



The German Fusiliers, Company D, 105th Ammu- 
nition Train, is one of the oldest military companies 
in the city of Charleston ,and one of the oldest in the 
United States, rich with memories of Revolutionary 
time and heroes, inseparably bound up and interwoven 
with the history of American liberiy. 

They were organized on the first Monday of May, 
1 775. Alexander Gillon was their first Captain, and 
Michael Kalteisen was their First Lieutenant. In 
1776 and 1777 they were in active service around 
Charleston, and in 1779, with 100 men strong, they 
took part in the siege of Savannah, lost their Captain 
Sheppard, and one of their Lieutenants, Kimmel, 
and a number of their men, and were brought back 
home under the command of Lieutenants Strobel and 
Sass. 

In 1836 they fought in the Florida War. In the 
Confederate War, in conjunction with the Union 
Light Infantry of Charleston, they were attached to 
the 27th South Carolina Regiment and served with 
them through the war. As Company D, 2d South 
Carolina Infantry, they spent nine months on the Texas 
Border. One June 12th, 1917, they volunteered for 
the war and left for Camps Jackson and Sevier for 
preparation, and on the 26th of May, 1918, as Com- 
pany D, i05th Ammunition Train, they left for 
France, and served in France from June 12th, 1918, 
to March 28th, 1919. They have existed in an un- 
broken succession from 1 775, and have participated 
actively in all the duties that the militia of South 
Carolina were called upon to take part in. 

Briefly stated, the history of the German Fusiliers 
is as follows: 

Organized May 5th, 1775. 

In siege of Savannah in I 779. 

In Florida War m 1836. 

In Confederate War in 1861. 

On Texas Border in 1916. 

Ac;o;s the seas from June 12, 1918, to March 
28, 1919. 

They have served the State of South Carolina, the 
city of Charleston and America in all these long years 
faithfully. 



Ammunition Train 

ROSTER OF COMPANY D 

105th Ammunition Train 

FIRST SERGEANT 

Chappell. William H Charlesion. S. C. 

MESS SERGEANT 

Learv. JoiEPll S Cherokee Place. Charleston, S. C. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Meacher. Arthur C 3 Park St., Charlesion, S. C. 

SERGEANTS 

Wolfe, Leon K 30 Wenlworlh Si.. Charlesion, S. C. 

Ortmann, John H 176 Meeting St., Charleston. S. C. 

RamBKE, DlEDERlCK W 171 Queen St., Charleston, S. C. 

Claussen, August C 12 Pickney St., Charleston. S. C. 

VoN Santen, James L 10 Trumbo St.. Charleston. S. C. 

Weaver, Franklin E Hyman, S. C. 

Petit. Eugene E 14 John St.. Charleston. S. C. 

CORPORALS 

EngelbeR'.-,, Harry 37 George St., Charleston. S. C. 

Rubin, Harry King and Spring Sts.. Charleston, S. C. 

Reeves, Hoap C 86 Sheppard St., Charleston, S. C. 

Moore. Coy E Conway, S. C. 

McKiNNEY, Clarence C Simpsonville, S. C. 

Reins. Lee 208 W. Peachlree St., Atlanta, Ga. 

Berkman, Herman R 66 St. Philip St., Charleston. S. C. 

Edwards, Henry C 612 King St., Charleston, S. C. 

Whittaker, Zeb V Azalea. N. C. 

Latimer. DeWitt T Pelzer. S. C. 

Grimes, James E 16 Blake St., Charleston, S. C. 

Burkenhofer, Fred Address Unknown 

Snover, Walter Hooper, Neb. 

Prince, William S 3 Glebe St., Charleston, S. C. 

Dodge, Harold A 415 Cherry St.. Springfield. Mo. 

Jones, Thomas D Dugger, Ind. 

Feuerstein, August G Leshara. Neb. 

COOKS 

Smith, George W Hot Springs, N. C. 

Lewis, George T Johnson City. Tenn. 

Young, David H Camden. S. C. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 
Hartley, Myrt S Tatle Rock. N. C. 

WAGONERS 

Bailey, John W., Jr Wali:rbc:o. S. C. 

Bailey, Martin L Walt;rboro. S. C. 

Bond. Ruben M Salvisa, Ky. 

Cave, Lancdon A Barnwell, S. C. 

Chamberlain. Elmer E Cedar Creek. Neb 

CoMSTOCK, Anthony F Gunnison, Col. 

Cox, Lor\ M Loris. S. C. 

Efird, Euclid K Albermarlc, N. C. 

Foster, Orvil L Baxter Springs, Kans. 

Gerard, George A 72 King St., Charleston, S. C. 

Geddincs. Ezra W Pinewood. S. C. 



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GuNTHER, Philip Bigelow. Kans. 

Hardison, Claudius Williamston, N. C. 

Harrison, Stewart Evergreen, N. C. 

Hass, Francis A Ithaca, Neb. 

HoDCE, Harold L Pinewood, S. C. 

Hodge, JVIcBeth Pinewood. S. C. 

Jernican, Dewey M St. Stephens 

Karces, Martin W Silver Creek, Neb. 

Kenney, Maurice Yoder, Col. 

Kinard, Marion R North Charleston. S. C. 

Long, Robert T Piedmont, S. C. 

LowDER. Reece a Albermarle, N. C. 

McGalliard, Ambrose W Asheville, N. C. 

Prickett. Thomas E 209 Euclid Ave.. PofSlar Bluff, Mo. 

Ramsey, Carland Inman, S. C. 

Ramsey, Paul W Biltmore, N. C. 

RousH, Harry A Fremont, Neb. 

Samuelson, Walter E Genoa, Neb 

Simpson, John R 36 B. Society St., Charleston, S. C. 

Sutko, James Duncan, Neb. 

Upton. Charles W Asheville, N. C. 

Youmans, Harrison Fort Myers, Fla. 

BUGLERS 

Horwitz, David A 132 King St.. Charleston. S. C. 

Lindsay, Altie Puxico, Mo. 

PRIVATES. FIRST CLASS 

Altis, Skelt a Cabool, Mo. 

Branch, Ralph A Mora, New Mex. 

Brodie, Carl Sullivan, Ind. 

Bryson. Wesey Cashiers Valley, N. C. 

Chandler, Joseph J Union, S. C. 

Dame, P,-!EST0N Phillipsburg, Mo. 

Dawson, Wm. J., Jr...1737 W. Jefferson St., Phoenix, Ariz. 

Foulke, Silas D Cory, Ind. 

Frank, Joseph Pry, Neb. 

Francese, Gatano 369 King St., Charleston. S. C. 

Freeman, Vernon A Lake City, Col. 

Garner, Homer L 24 E. 4th St.. Alton, 111. 

Hacer, Juddie Poplar Bluff. Mo. 

Hendrix, Earl Conway, Mo. 

Hewitt. Esker Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. 

Hilton, Earl Spokane, Mo. 

HoLESBERG, HERBERT C Summerville, S. C. 

Johnson. Ralph Eales, S. D. 

Knapp, Fred C Fontanent. Ind. 

Leffler, Oliver J Pueblo, Col. 

Mallison, Herbert 1710 S. 29th St., Omaha, Neb. 

Martin, Lawrence Conway, S. C. 

Maull, Jakes D 2 Hampstead Sq., Charleston, S. C. 

Miller, James H 15 Cleveland St.. Charleston, S. C. 

Mitchell. Efton School. Mo. 

OusKY, En W. Terre Haute, Ind. 

Quick, J\mes F Bolivar, Mo. 

Richards, Joseph H Box 575 Globe, Ariz. 

Schmidt, Ervie C Valpariso, Neb. 

Sheerer, Martin L 309 Piassa St.. Alton, III. 

Shetley, Elijah S Fredericktown, Mo. 



Steinmeyer, John L 91 Drake St., Charleston, S. C. 

Swanson, Oswald Buffalo. S. D. 

Swartz. William H 714 S. 135th St.. Terre Haute, Ind. 

Varner, Edward Moncks Corner, S. C. 

Vose, Elmore M Charleston. S. C. 

Van Delken, Edward A 413 King St.. Charleston. S. C. 

PRIVATES 

Bannon, John E Larks Spur, Col. 

Barnhart, Curt F Tunis, Mo. 

Black, Ezra R Bolivar. Mo. 

Byrd, Frank L Fork. S. C. 

Capek. James 5831 IBth St., South Omaha, Neb. 

Carr, Everett Swedesburg, Mo. 

Chapman, Rufus D Canton, N. C. 

Clark. Guss Monks Corner, S. C. 

Davis. Emmett L Fredericktown. Mo. 

Dishon. James H 417 S. 25lh St.. Terre Haute. Ind. 

Fo.x, Charles B Cedar Gap, Mo. 

GiBBENS, Henry H Saline Cily, Mo. 

Glenn, Thomas J Greer. S. C. 

Galloway, Charles B.. . . 104 Shcppard St., Charleston, S. C. 

GossETT. Morris B Cross Plains. Tenn. 

Guerrette. Fortunat 28 Water St., Waterville, Maine 

Gertsen, Alfred A Lissie, Texas 

Hammock, Thomas Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Harris. Jennings W. B Bald Creek, N. C. 

Harris, Walter W Bald Creek, N. C. 

Hemphill. Jay B Asheville, N. C. 

Hodge, Arthur F Awensdaw, S. C. 

Jackson. Charley R Nixey. Mo. 

Jessen. Gustave White. S. D. 

Landstrom, Clarence 4740 Seward St., Omaha, Neb. 

Leisner, William G Plain View. Neb. 

Lopez, ManUE 67 Chihuahua Hill, Bisbec, Ariz. 

Maurizio. Anthony 934 River Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Mitts, James A Hornersville, Mo. 

Montgomery, James N Selingman, Mo. 

McCutchen. Elias H Bishopville. S. C. 

McKlNNON. NiNG H Waynesville, Mo. 

Nadelman, Harry W 9A Warren St., Charleston, S. C. 

Price, Grover S Hornersville, Mo. 

Randolph, Benjamin H Sparta, Tenn. 

Rogers, Hobart M Candler, N. C. 

Rogers, Willie S Collins, Ga. 

StanfieLD. Alex G Cypress Inn, Tenn. 

Simpson. George E Miamisburg. Ohio 

Styron, Benjamin H Ocracoke, N. C. 

ToMOLAM, James Ray, Ariz. 

Walton, Harry L 16 Arlington Si., AshLville, N. C. 

WORLEY, Carl B Asheville, N. C. 

Bcccs, Robert L Gassoway, W. Va. 

Attached 

Blevins, Luther Address Unknown 

Sprenkle, Owens Hellar, Pa. 

Died of Disease 

Knitiig, William, Co:p Selden. Kans. 

Jones, William A., Pvi., 1st CI Asheville, N. C. 




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Company E, 1 05th 

ROSTER OF COMPANY E 
105th Ammunition Train 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Driggers, George T R. F. D. 4. Box 60, Columbia. S. C. 

MESS SERGEANT 

Spicner, Albery Olympla p. O., Columbia, S. C. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Mayfield, David T 1319 Whaley St., Columbia, S. C. 

STABLE SERGEANT 

Alexander, James A Saguache, Col. 

Giles, Hiram R 406 Pall Mall Sl, Columbia, S. C. 

SERGEANTS 

Brown. Charlie C Olympia P. O.. Columbia. S. C. 

Lever, James J 824 Zig Zag Sl. Columbia. S. C. 

Mack, Rolla P Lexington, S. C. 

Hawkins, Walter H 200 Huger St., Columbia, S. C. 

Driggers, James B R. F. D. No. 4, Columbia, S. C. 

Walters, Herman P Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Walters, Hurlie A Olympia P. O.. Columbia. S. C. 

CORPORALS 

Cooper, James B Olympia P. O.. Columbia. S. C. 

Hilliard, John B Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

SwiNNiE, Charlie Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Jeffers, Willie Chester, S. C. 

Mills. OsbON J Olympia P. O.. Columbia. S. C. 

Garvin. Herman E Warrensville. S. C. 

Outlaw, Bruce W Olympia P. O., Columbia. S. C. 

Wages, Lonnie Olympia F-". O., Columbia, S. C. 

Ray, Edward B Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Ward. Cecil T Ryland. N. C. 

Courtney, Pearmon A Candler, N. C. 

Clements, James 806 S. 3d St.. Terre Haute. Ind. 

Truesdel. John S Kershaw, S. C. 

Mason. William S Statesville. N. C. 

Moore. Charlie C Catawba, N. C. 

Murdock, Carl W Statesville, N. C. 

Marshall, George R 1409 S. 2d St., Terre Haute, Ind. 

Bird, Harry 307 Brancroft, Omaha, Neb. 

Saye, Walter Albemarle, N. C. 

PiLLiNcs, Oswalt J 68 Seaman St., Providence, R. L 

Cyr, Elzear J 12 Jackson St.. Rochester. N. H. 

COOKS 

CuSHMAN. Calvin Olympia P. O.. Columbia, S. C. 

Addy. Henry E Cayce, S. C. 

BowEN, John Gastonia, N. C. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 
Smith. Ezra Hartsville. S. C. 

MECHANIC 

Phillips. Will J Fairfield Mills, Wmsboro, S. C. 

Dukes. Vergil J Branchville. S. C. 



Ammunition Train 

WAGONERS 

Collins. Wilbur L Florence. S. C. 

Cooper, James R Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Miles, Reddin Florence, S. C. 

SADDLER 
Livingston, John R 110 Marion St., Columbia. S. C. 

HORSESHOERS 

Guess, Henry M 300 Whaley St., Columbia, S. C. 

Paschal, Teams Olympia P. O.. Columbia. S. C. 

Owens. James L Swannanoa, N. C. 

BUGLERS 

Stocner, John P Olympia P. O., Columbia. S. C. 

McQuATTERS, Joe A 1011 Church St.. Columbia. S. C. 

PRIVATES. FIRST CLASS 

Barfield, Jessie Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Barnwell. Raymond L...R. F. D. No. I. Asheville. N. C. 

Bedenaugh, Claude F Olympia P. O.. Columbia. S. C. 

Blixt. Harry Olalhe. Col. 

Boulware. Roman P. O. No. 198, Chester, S. C. 

Bradley, Tilden J Cherokee, N. C. 

Brookshire. Gaylian G Statesville, N. C. 

Brooms, Hut Whlitler, N. C. 

Byouk. Mark M Cretcd Butte. Col. 

Cacle, David F R. F. D. No. 3, Wadesboro, N. C. 

Chastian. Thos. J Printess. N. C. 

Crawford. William P Statesville, N. C. 

Darby, Walter J 1 120 Olympia Ave., Columbia, S. C. 

Deketeleare. Leo Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Eddins, Amos W. S Patterson Springs. N. C. 

Frady. Andrew H P. O. No. 12, Arden, N. C. 

Gatton. William G Dunlap. N. C. 

Harwell. Marvin W Statesville. N. C. 

Harlow, Clarence R. F. D. No. 5. Sullivan, Ind. 

Harmon, James Haymera, Ind. 

Henson, Leslie H 806 Lower St., Columbia, S. C. 

Holder. William F R. F. D. No. 4, Albemarle, N. C. 

Jesznak, Benj. J...I93 Washington St.. Perth Amboy. N. J. 

King. Robert B Stattsville. N. C. 

Lankford, William D Canton. N. C. 

Lewis, Walter Tripleit, N. C. 

McMakin. Carl J R. F. D. No. 4, Campobello. S. C. 

Neeley, Marion B 329 Lower St., Columbia, S. C. 

Owesby, Jacob D R. F. D. No. 2, Ruthcrfordton, N. C. 

Outlaw, George E Olympia P. O.. Columbia, S. C. 

Outlaw. John A Olympia P. O.. Columbia. S. C. 

Padgett, Harold A Tumersburg, N. C. 

Palmer, Thomas T Murphey. N. C. 

Rineheart. Vaughn R.. R. F. D. No. 1. Waynesville. N. C. 

Scates. Robert L Hazlewood. N. C. 

Scott. Ronie . Lake View, S. C. 

SiPEs, John L Statesville. N. C. 

Spigner. Fred Olympia P. O.. Columbia. S. C. 



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Stamper, Gurney A Statesvllle, N. C. 

Sutton. Fred Dillsboio, N. C. 

Ward, Vance R. F. D. No. 2, Campobello, S. C. 

Williams, Benjamin W Abberville, S. C. 

Williamson, Preston L 200 Piccadilla, Columbia, S. C. 

Young. Sauchee R. F. D. No. 1, Wh.uier. N. C. 

PRIVATES 

Abbott. Barney L R. F. D. No. 1, Darlington, S C. 

Av.ANT. Henry B McCall, S. C. 

ArON. ThURMAN Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Ayers, David R Canton, N. C. 

Barber, Austin Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Barber, Walter R. F. D. No. 3, Winasboro, S. C. 

Barnett, Claud Inman, S. C. 

Barrett, Henry F. R Shelby. N. C. 

Baysincer, Fred R. F. D. No. 7, Brazil, Ind. 

Bennett, Louie V 120 W. 16i:i St., Norfolk, Va. 

Bennett, Leander Sullivan, Ind. 

Bishop, Dewey D West Ashevillc, N. C. 

BoDiE, Clayton E Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Braswell, C. a.. 17 Jones St., Brandon Mill, Greenville, S. C. 

BriemaN, Bi NJAMIN S Florence, S. C. 

Brown, Will. .R. F. D. No. I, Box 19, Cerro Gordo, Tenn. 

Byrd. Daniel R Fork, S. C. 

Causey, Joe H Shelby, N. C. 

Clary, David W Shelby, N. C. 

Coffee, John L Talking Rock, Ga. 

Coccins, Thomas R Duncans, S. C. 

Cunningham, James B DilUboro, N. C. 

CuRRiE, Robert S R. F. D. No. 2, Grover, N. C. 

Cromer, Henry Jonesville, S. C. 

Davis, James R Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Driggers, John M R. F. D. No. 4, Columbia, S. C. 

DuNNAWAY, Tillman C Union, S. C. 

DuLOvicH, George J R. F. D. No. 5, Catawissa, Pa. 

Drum. James O Pittsburg, Pa. 

Ennis, Henry K Marion, N. C. 

Faust, Lawson C Killian, S. C. 

Finney, Bert..R. F. D. No. 2, Box 28, Waynesville, N. C. 

Flockhart, James Terre Haule, Ind. 

Gillespie, Henry F Wallhalla, S. C. 

Goode, Clarence Blacksberg, S. C 

Graham, Elmon Loris. S. C. 

Graham, Purn I Aynor, S. C. 

Hare, Luther C R. F. D. No. I, Madison, S. C. 

Harness, Oliver Siillwell, Ind. 

Harrelson, Monroe.... R. F. D. No. 2, Darlington, S. C. 

Hawkins, Robert P 200 Huger St., Columbia, S. C. 

Haynes, Fulmer C Clyde, N. C. 

Humphries, Charlie R. F. D. No. 1, Grover, N. C. 

Hux, Mack N R. F. D. No. I. Box 30, Gurley. S. C. 

Johnson, Emlie V Chicago, 111. 

Jumper. Stancil Whiitler, N. C. 

Kerns, Whit Little Rock, S. C. 

Koon, Earl Arlington, S. C. 

Kreps, Hairy 1 125 Olympia Ave., Columbia, S. C. 

Lance, Percy E Mena, Ark. 



LoMBRlCAN, John F....Mt. Carmel, North Lumberland, Pa. 

Manus. Thomas Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Maney, Frank J Hazel Wood, N. C. 

Martin, Posey B R. F. D. No. 2, Grover, N. C. 

Martin, James W 310 Whalcy St., Columbia, S. C. 

Meinke, William C Elzria, Ohio 

MeLCHER, John M Cornelia. Neb. 

Murry, Thomas Gibson, N. C. 

McSwAIN, Oria B Patterson Springs, N. C. 

McCoy, Fmd Sylvia, N. C. 

McClary, David O R. F. D. No. 1, Bordman, N. C, 

Mullholland, Thomas T Pueblo, Col, 

Nelson, John O Greensboro, N. C. 

Newhouse. Earl E Glassport, Pa. 

Oglesby, Daniel S Morehead City, N, C. 

Patterson, Charles J Patterson Springs, N. C. 

Poland, Grover A Kirby. W. Va. 

Powell, Summitt Lorce Cotton Mills, Gastonia, N. C. 

Ratliff, John W Auler, Miss. 

Reid, Guy F Campobello, S. C. 

Ridgeway, Catha L Olympia P. O., Columbia. S. C. 

RiPPEY, Other R R. F. D. No. 2, Grover, N. C. 

Robertson, Clarence R. F. D. No. 1, Grover, N. C. 

Roberts, Elberth E Dillon, N. C. 

Schooler, Clyde F IO21/2 Patten Ave.. Asheville, N. C. 

Seay. Doyle Clyde, N. C. 

Shoemaker, William E Charlotte, N. C. 

Smith, John A 411 Green St., Newberry, S. C. 

Spancler, Joe L Shelby, N. C. 

Speight, Grover C Staltonsburg, N. C. 

Stamey, Shelton Belmont, N. C. 

SouTHERLAND, Lee J Murphey, N. C. 

Stukes, JasFER 314 Henry St., Danville, Va. 

Thakerson, Jessie V R. F. D. No. 6, Shelby, N. C. 

TiDDY, Roy F Shelbyville. N. C. 

Turner, Paul North Augusta, S. C. 

UsTENOvicH, Joseph Reading, Pa. 

Ward, William M R. F. D. No. 3, Lula, Ga. 

Wallace, Henry E Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C, 

Weathers, Jamie L R. F. D. No. 1, Franchville, S. C. 

Watts, Dennis M..R. F. D. No. 4, Box 110, Columbia. S. C. 

Webb, C\rl York. S. C. 

Whealton. George T Morehead City, N. C. 

White, Larion T P. O. Box 264, Bethune, S. C. 

WiLKERSON, Alvin W Cottontown, Tenn. 

Wright, Garland T Candler, N. C. 

Killed in Railroad Wreck: Jan. 21, 1919, at 
Manois, France 

SERGEANT 
Mack. Rolla P Lexington, S. C. 

CORPORAL 
Jeffers, Willie Chester, S. C. 

PRIV.-XTES. FIRST CLASS 

King, Robert Bruce Statesville, N. C. 

Owensby, Jacob D R. F. D. No. 2, Rutherfordton, N. C. 

Stamper, Gurney A Statesville, N. C. 



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PRIVATES 

Abbott, Barney L R. F. D. No. 1, Darlington, S. C. 

Barber, Austin Olympia P. O., Columbia. S. C. 

Manus, Thomas Olympia P. O., Columbia, S. C. 

Seay, Doyle Clyde, N. C. 

Spangler, Joe L Shelby, N. C. 

Powell, Summitt Loice Cotton Mills, Gastonia, N. C. 

Injured in Railroad Wreck 

CORPORALS 

*MuRDocK, Carl W Statcsville, N. C. 

Mason, Williaiw S Slatesville, N. C. 

*Truesdel, John S Kershaw, S. C. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 
Smith, Ezra Harlsville, S. C. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

*Cagle, David F R. F. D. No, 3, Wadesboro, N. C. 

McMakin, Carl J R. F. D. No. 4, Campobello, S. C. 

Sipes, John L Statesville, N. C. 

Brookshire, Gaylian G Statcsville, N. C. 



PRIVATES 

BoDEE, Cl.wton E Olympia, Columbia, S. C. 

Causby. Joe H Shelby, N. C. 

Driggers. John M R. F. D. No. 4, Columbia. S. C. 

Ennis, Henry K Marion, N. C. 

Goode, Clarence Blacksburg. S. C. 

Haynes, Fulmer C Clyde, N. C. 

Jumper, Stancil Whiitier. N. C. 

KooN, Earl Arlington, S. C. 

Nelson, John O Greensboro, N. C. 

RippEY, Other R R. F. D. No. 2, Grover, N. C. 

*Webb, Carl York, S. C. 

Wallace. Henry E Olympia, Columbia, S. C. 

COOK 

*BoWEN, John Gastonia, N. C. 

Fell Dead From Horse in Attack From 
Aeroplane, Oct. 3, 1918, Near 

MONTFAUCON, FrANCE 

PRIVATE 
Langley, Thomas J Lancaster, S. C. 



*These men returned to their organization February 25, 191?. 



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U 'BocKf Obse'ver iVotei Creai Ac-Svii^y In'E^ncmV Sector- - 

Drawn by Capt. Rolston, 105th A. T. 



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Company F, 1 05th Ammunition Train 



Company F was formed from Company E, 2d 
South Carolina Infantry, which was known in South 
Carohna as the Darlington Guards. This company 
had been reorganized in 1916 just prior to the Mexi- 
can Border Campaign, but its history and traditions 
date back to the days before the Civil War. It is 
said to have been the first company in South Carohna 
to volunteer as a unit for the defense of the South. 

In May, 1916, Col. Henry T. Thompson reor- 
gcnized the company. He had been its captain over 
a long period prior to the Spanish-American War, in- 
cluding the Darlington Riot, 1893, and he had given 
it a very prominent place in the S^ate Militia. 

On the reorganization the officers were: Captain, 
Henry T. Thompson; First Lieutenant, Benjamin F. 
Gaines; Second Lieutenant. James F. Jeffords. 

On June 19, 1916, the company reported at Camp 
Moore, Styx, S. C, in answer to the call of the Presi- 
dent, but in civilian clothing and without equipment. 

On July 1, 1916, Capt. Thompson became ill and 
the command devolved upon Lieut. Gaines, who com- 
manded the company from ihat date until Jan. 23, 
1919, except for a few short periods. 

The company served on the Mexican border at El 
Paso, Texas, from August 13, 1916, to March 7, 
1917. 

In November, 1916, Lieut. James F. Jeffords was 
appointed to the Marine Corps. Capt. Thompson's 
place also became vacant on November 1 , due to his 
discharge (he had been at Ft. Moultrie prior to this 
time). Lieut. Gaines was appointed Captain, First 
Sergeant Evander R. Mclver became First Lieutenant, 
and Sergeant Charles N. Muldrow became Second 
Lieutenant. 

On Jan. 15, 1917, the company was selected to 
be Headquarters Company, 1 0th Prov. Div. It func- 
tioned as such during the remainder of its stay in 
Texas. The company has in its possession still a let- 
ter of commendation from Gen. Charles G. Morton, 
commanding. 

In April, 1917, Lieut. Muldrow received an ap- 
pointment in the Marine Corps. The vacancy cre- 
ated was filled by the promotion of First Sergeant Ro- 
land L. Jeffords to Second Lieutenant. 

The company lost to the training camps during this 
period a number of its best N. C. O.'s. 



On July 25, 1917, the company answered the call 
of the President for the European War. From this 
date until Aug. 25, 1917, the company remained at 
its home rendezvous, Darlington. No people could 
have shown more zeal for the comfort of a body of 
men than the people of Darlington during this last 
month that they had their company with them. The 
company was virtually "billeted" in the homes of the 
people, though we were not familiar with that term 
then. We have been billeted in many a foreign town 
and city since, but never anything to equal the billets 
we had in Darlington; no sleeping in the hay loft nor 
the pig pen here. 

The company joined the 2d Bn., 2d S. C. Inf., 
at Camp Jackson on August 25, 1917. While here 
the 2d Bn. became the Horsed Section (later Horsed 
Battalion), 105th Ammunition Train. Company E 
became Caisson Co. No. 2, 105th Ammunition 
Train. In compliance with a G. O. from the War 
Department this was changed later to Company E 
and about one month after this it became Company F. 
Its final designation. The Horsed Section joined the 
I 05th Ammunition Train at Camp Sevier, Greenville, 
S. C, on Sept. 26, 1917. 

On March 2, 1918, Lieut. Mclver was promoted 
a Captain and Lieut. Jeffords a First Lieutenant. 
The second lieutenancy thus rendered vacant remained 
vacant during the rest of the war. Second Lieut. 
Stephen A. Nettles was assigned to fill this vacancy, 
but he never joined, remaining on special duty with 
Headquarters, 30th Div. Capt. Mclver was as- 
signed as Battalion Adjutant, Horsed Battalion. 

During the stay at Camp Sevier the company was 
never fully equipped to function as a caisson company. 
Suddenly we received our full complement of horses, 
but only halters to handle them with. We later re- 
ceived enough blankets for them, and a few saddles 
and bridles for the single mounts, but never enough to 
go "all round." We never received caissons or har- 
ness before going across. Our training consisted in 
parading up and down the roads barebacked and 
bridleless. In France it was just the reverse, "beau- 
coup" caissons and harness, and one might say, no 
horses ; the French horse's favorite time to die is when 
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American horses many and many a time at St. Mihiel 
and in the Argonne. 

In April, 1918. about one-half of the company 
went to Cleveland Mills .Artillery Range to act as 
Department "B" in the battery formed provisionally 
there for range duty. They were relieved at the end 
of one week by an equal number of men from Com- 
pany E. 

The trip from Camp Sevier, S. C, U. S. A., to 
Camp Coetquidan, France, was without incident. 

At Camp Coetquidan the company received French 
horses, French harness and two or three French 
wagons, but no caissons. We trained as best we 
could with this limited equipment. 

On August 1, 1918. Capt. Gaines was ordered to 
join the British Artillery at Ypres for observation and 
instruction in the operations there. The command of 
the company thereupon devolved upon Lieut. Jeffords, 
who carried it to the front on Aug. 22, 1918. Lieut. 
L. A. Clair of Company C was assigned to the com- 
pany for duty a short while during this period. 

The company remained under Lieut. Jeffords' com- 
mand until Aug. 24, 1918, when it was rejoined in 
the Foret de la Reine by Capt. Gaines. 

We still had no caissons upon arriving at the front. 
By visiting all the salvage dump; and railheads in the 
community, however, we finally collected together 
enough of them to help quite a bit of ammunition 
along on its journey to Fritz. 

During the days prior to the drive of September 12 
on the St. Mihiel salient, the company was stationed 
in the very thickest of woods. No movements were 
made except at night, and then no lights could be 
used for fear of aerial observation. Not the least of 
our troubles consisted in moving our men, horses and 
vehicles in the dense forests without becomng hope- 
lessly lost. As an example, one of the men reported 
to the captain one night about 2 o'clock (part of the 
company was preparing to go out on a convoy) that 
he had saddled his horse and tied him to a tree before 
making up his blanket roll; but when he had completed 
the latter operation, he could find neither tree nor 
horse. 

By four days of forced night marching, between 
Sept. I 6 and Sept. 21, 1 9 1 8, we found ourselves in 
the Argonne, Our work here was of the same type 
as at St. Mihiel. 

Shortly after the initial drive of September 26th, 
detachments from each company of the Horsed Bat- 



talion were rushed to Avocourt, south of Montfaucon, 
to "manhandle " ammunition across the old Boche 
trenches. We spent one entire day at this place. 

A convoy from here, composed of men from Com- 
panies F and E, was attacked on one occasion by 
machine gun fire from a German aeroplane. The 
aviator passed three times up and down the column, 
firing, but luckily his aim was poor. Just at the end 
of his third passage, rifle fire from the ground brought 
him down. Company E lost one man, but none in 
Company F were injured. 

One of the functions discharged by the company 
during the Argonne offensive was the removal and 
replacement of guns put out of action in the batteries. 
During the withdrawal of the 35th Division from 
the Argonne after its terrible experience there, the com- 
pany had the honor of having its commanding general 
and his staff dine with it, an event which pleased 
Mess Sergeant Sexton and his cooks very highly. Com- 
pany F's kitchen was at a cross road (a few German 
shells reminded us very strongly of this fact), and 
we fed many a hungry passer-by. On one occasion 
we fed an entire Machine Gun Company which other- 
wise would have been S. O. L. for something to eat 
for the day. 

On October 28, 1918, the company relieved A 
company of the 1 32d Infantry at the Frascati Dump 
near Lamorville. We were quartered here in dugouts 
which had been occupied by the Germans for almost 
four years. Here we received some of Fritz's last 
shells, for shortly before the Armistice went into effect, 
he took some random shots at our dunp. We were 
at this dump on the morning of Nov. II, 1918, and 
heard that mighty bombardment, which extended from 
Holland to Switzerland, die away into absolute and 
peaceful silence. 

We rejoined the Train at Ambly about Nov. 15, 
1918. 

The next thing which occurred to disturb our peace- 
ful existence took place in the Army of Occupation in 
Luxemburg. I have used the word "peaceful " because 
we were not just then at war, but our lives were far 
from peaceful. We were en route to join the Third 
Army. We marched all day, always either in rain 
or snow, and carried full packs on our backs (there 
were plenty of wagons and caissons to carry them, as 
prescribed in F. A. regulations, but the Powers that Be 
thought that they looked nicer on the men's backs) . 
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and possibly left by daylight next day. The poor 
horses had it even worse than the men, for they had 
to stand on the picket line all night with icicles hanging 
from their tails. 

On one of these wintry nights, at Alzingen, a barn 
in which a few of our men were billeted accidentally 
caught on fire and burned up. That little barn was 
to prove to be Company F's "Jonah." We heard a 
good deal more about it later on. 

Between the dates of Dec. 20, 1918, and Jan. 
6, 1919, the company occupied the town of Moes- 
dorff, Luxemburg, exclusively. We were the "whole 
cheese" here. We had a rest room of our own, just 
next door to the Cafe Soissons. We had quite a run 
in with the bar-maid, who seemed to take offense at 
the manner in which we "rested," but she soon got 
reconciled to us, and even more than reconciled to 
some of us. 

On Jan. 19, 1919, Company F, Company E, 
Ordnance and Medical Detachments, 105th Ammu- 
nition Train, and the entire I 1 4th F. A. boarded a 
train near Toul bound for Le Mans Area. After 40 
hours of travel and standing still combined, the train 
had covered about forty miles. We were approach- 
ing the little town of Manois, when the train collided 
with the rear end of a freight standing or moving 
slowly on our track. Twenty-three of our men were 
killed outright and thirty were badly injured. Four- 
teen of the killed were from the Ammunition Train. 
Company F lost one man. Private Willie N. McNight, 
of Mt. Airy, N. C. Two men who had volunteered 
with our company and had been subsequently trans- 
ferred, were killed. They were Sergeant Arthur L. 
Welling, Ordnance Detachment, 105th Ammunition 
Train, and Private Barney Abbott, Co. E, 105th 
Ammunition Train, both from Darlington, S. C. This 
wreck was investigated by Inspector General, G. H. 
Q., and several officers went to Chaumont from the 
scene of the wreck in connection therewith. Among 
them was Capt. Gaines. Lieut. Jeffords was not at 
that time with the company, and an officer from the 
1 14th was assigned to command for the remainder of 
the trip. The company reported in at Headquarters, 
105th Ammunition Train, in command of First Ser- 
geant C. O. Doyle. 

Capt. A. E. Moulds, who came to the Train from 
the 90th Division, was placed in command on Jan. 
26, 1919. On March 7th he was placed in com- 
mand of the Camp Dodge Detachment, 105th Am- 



munition Train, and Lieut. Jeffords came in command. 
In the meantime Capt. Gaines had reported back 
from G. H. Q., but was transferred at once to the 
90th Division. 

On March 8th, just before boarding the train for 
St. Nazaire and the U. S. A. (the men were waiting 
with packs rolled), an order came in holding Maj. 
Marchant, Train Commander, Lieut. Jeffords, 25 N. 
C. O.'s and 6 privates. What was the trouble? "The 
Luxemburg fire." 

Capt. Geo. S. Menige, recently arrived in the Train, 
was placed in command of the remains of Company F. 

Everybody hates a "growler," but that part of 
Company F so ruthlessly separated from their right to 
go home would like right here and now to register 
as big a kick as they can kick. They were composed 
of men who had volunteered for service wherever 
their country saw fit to place them. They had 
served in both the infantry and the artillery; had not 
picked any soft spots. They would like to ask the 
reader if he does not think that they have been handed 
a raw deal. It seems to them that there are too many 
unhung individuals in this world who wilfully burned 
even dwellings on the soil of France, for our govern- 
ment to punish, rather than to torture honest men 
about accidental happenings. 

After holding this detachment for something like 
three months at Le Mans, while the "big boys" quar- 
reled between themselves as to how to dispose of 
these "barn burners," someone became interested 
to know if we were really going to accompany 
the A. E. F. home or not, and began to 
trace things up a bit. The history of the journeyings 
of the papers in this case would be quite interesting in 
itself, but unfortunately this narrative deals with Com- 
pany F and not with the profundities of the legal prac- 
tice in the A. E. F. However, one incident in the 
travels of our papers affected the history of 32 mem- 
bers of Company F quite materially, and besides, it 
is too good to ignore; it was that between April 4th 
and May 21st (when our tracer routed them out) 
they were quietly resting in "The Bureau for the Pre- 
vention of Fires" and we dying of homesickness all 
the time. 

We are all home now, however, and the investiga- 
tion as well as the barn have gone up in smoke; but, 
reader, heed this warning: if you ever go to war, stay 
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back home through "Germany" — don't "fool around" 
the rocking chair soldiers in the S. O. S. 

The order holding these officers and men at Le 
Mans follows: 

Headquarters 
American Embarkation Center 
American Expeditionary Force, Apo. 762 
March 7, 1919 
SPECIAL ORDERS No. 66 
61 -A. The following officers and men of the 105th 
Ammunition Train will remam on duty at the For- 
warding Camp upon departure of their organization 
until released by specific orders from these Headquar- 
ters, they being required as material witnesses before 
a G. C. M.: 

Major T. E. Marchant, Commanding Officer, 
I 05th Am. Tr. 

*Captain Withington, C. O., Motor Battalion, 
105th Am. Tr. 

^Captain J. L. Gantt, 105th Am. Tr. 
Captain William M. Carter, 105th Am. Tr. 
Corporal James R. Clutchfield, Co. F.. 105th 
Am. Tr. 

Corporal Carl F. Tilley, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 
Corporal John D. Parker, Co. F. 105th Am. Tr. 
Corporal Dewer L. Byrn, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 
Coporal Broadus H. Long, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 
Corporal Bennett D. Kelly, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 
Corporal Boland F. Hoffman, Co. F, 105th 
Am. Tr. 

Sergeant E. L. Muldrow, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 
Sergeant H. C. Garrison, Co. F, i05th Am. Tr. 
Sergeant Richard B. Swann, Co. F, 105th 
Am. Tr. 

Corporal Walter M. Blanton. Co. F, 105th 
Am. Tr. 

Sergeant C. L. Kirven, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 
Sergeant E. E. Kirven, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 
Sup. Sergeant Ben G. Young, Co. F, 1 05th 
Am. Tr. 

Sergeant Geo. E. Welch, Co. F, I 05th Am. Tr. 
1st Sergeant Clarence O. Doyle. Co. F, 105th 
Am. Tr. 

1st Lieutenant Royland L. Jeffords, Co. F. 105th 
Am. Tr. 



*Captains Withington and Gantt were released from this 
order and returned to the United States with the Train. Captain 
Withington as Senior Officer, being in command. 



Corporal Christopher C. Marion, Co. F, 105th 
Am. Tr. 

Private Charles Jernigan, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 

Private James B. Grant, Co. F, 1 05th Am. Tr. 

Private George E. Short, Co. F, 105 th Am. Tr. 

Sergeant Joseph O. Baird, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 

Sergeant C. T. Siskron, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 

Private Virgil T. Davis, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 

Corporal Garell B. Moser, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 

Corporal John H. Flowers, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 

Corporal W. E. Newton, Co. F, 1 05th Am. Tr. 

Corpoial Geo. E. Yarbrough, Co. F. 105th 
Am. Tr. 

Corporal Robert Puchett, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 

Corporal James W. Norman, Co. F, 105th 
Am. Tr. 

Corporal Geo. H. Taylor, Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 

Private Manuel J. King. Co. F, 105th Am. Tr. 

Acknowledge of receipt of these instructions 
will be made by each officer and enlisted man. In 
the case of soldiers, acknowledgment will be made by 
the immediate commanding officers. 

Bv command of Major-Ceneral Read: 

Geo. S. Slonds, Chief of Staff. 
Official: 
E. L. Nicholas, 

Captain. Inf., U. S. A.. Adjutant. 

ROSTER OF COMPANY F 
I 05th Ammunition Train 

FIRST SERGEANT 
DovLE, Claren'ce O Darlington, S. C. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Sexton, James M Darhngion, S. C. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 

YoUNC, Ben G 212 Frank St., Greenville. S. C. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
Kirven, Cecil L Darhngion, S. C. 

SERGEANTS 

Williamson, Robert E Dovesville. S. C. 

Bryant. Laurine B Darhngion, S C. 

Muldrow. Franklin L Darhngion, S. C. 

Kirven, Eugene E., Jr Dovesville. S. C. 

Garrison. Henry C Darlington. S. C. 

Siskron, Charles T Darlington. S. C. 

Welch, George E Mount Airy, N. C. 

Swann. Richard B Darlington. S. C. 

Beard. Joseph O 222 W. Evans St.. Florence, S. C. 



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CCRPC^ALS 

LoNX, Broadus H Darlington, S. C. 

Flowers. John H Dovesville, S. C. 

Blanton. 'nX alter M Darlington. S. C. 

Yarborol'3h. George E Darlington. S. C. 

Byrd. Dewey Dovesville. S. C. 

Parker. John D Fair Trade, S. C. 

Newton. William E Mount Airy. N. C. 

Marion, Christopher C Mount Airy, N. C. 

MosER, GarRELL B Mount Airy, N. C. 

Kelly, Bennett D Darlington, S. C. 

PucKETT, Robert Mount Airy, N. C. 

Marshall, Manuel Mount Airy, N. C. 

Norman, J. W Mount Airy, N. C. 

CrUTCHFIELD, J. R., 636 W. Trade St , Winston-Salem, N. C. 

Hoffman, Bcland A Darlington. S. C. 

Taylor, George H Biltmore, N. C. 

TiLLEY, Carl Mount Airy, N. C. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 
Loflen, Dillard Mount Airy. N. C. 

MECHANICS 

Edwards. Eugene E Darlington, S. C. 

Harrell, Julian R Montague. N. C. 

WAGONERS 

Ford. Albert R 539 Hiawasse Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

GooDsoN, John D Darlington, S. C. 

Gibson, Grover C ■. Greenville, S. C. 

SADDLER 
Byrd, Clifton J Darlington. S. C. 

HORSESHOERS 

B.^YANT. James A R. F. D. No, 3. Hartsville. S. C. 

McCann, Richard E Kapps Mill. N^ C. 

White, John W Dobson, N. C. 

COOKS 

Griffith, Clarence W R. F. D. No. 2, Harmony. N. C. 

Smith. William M Mount Airy. N. C. 

Cline, Caul J Stalesville. N. C. 

BUGLERS 

Colvin, Gray T Darlington. S. C. 

Federline. Waynard O Greenville. S. C. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

All. Ben Ulmers. S. C. 

Broach. Coit E Darlington, S. C. 

Bramlett, Jesse Greer, S. C. 

B\RD. EvANDER Dovesville. S. C. 

Byrd. Robert Dovesville. S. C. 

Christensen. Jens Erwin. S. D. 

Cox, WiLMER Lake View, S. C. 

EiDsoN, Arthur C Stalesville, N. C. 

Gordon, Howard D Canton, N. C. 

Harbin, Julian C Kannapolis. N. C. 

Harris. John E Turnersburg. N. C. 

Hill. Dudliv R. F. D. No. I, Timmonsville. S. C. 



Hill. Leo R, F. D. No. 1. Timmonsville. S. C. 

HoDcE. David W Alcolu. S. C. 

James. Aaron Farminglon, N. C. 

Jernican, Charles E.. Tabor, N. C. 

Knotts. Marion Lamar, S. C. 

Lagle. Baxter Mocksville. N. C. 

Lagle. Hugh A Mocksville. N. C. 

LippARD. Edgar M Stal=s\ille. N. C. 

Lytton. Sidney E Statesville. N. C. 

Maner. Finley Weaverville. N. C. 

McDuFFiE, James D Kannapolis, N. C. 

McNeilly. Esper Shelby, N. C. 

Moose, Robert L Statesville, N. C. 

O'Dell, John C Grandview. N. C. 

Padilla, Cosme Santa Fe. N. M. 

Parish. Herman S Sumter. S. C. 

Pike. Joseph D R. F. D. No. 1, Brim, N. C. 

POTEAT. Seaph J Marion, N. C. 

Powell, Joseph Leo, S. C. 

Price. Thomas B Conway. S. C. 

Rogers. James B Statesville. N. C. 

Ross. Baxter Monroe. N. C. 

Scales, Lafe P The Hollow. Va. 

Shipwash. Roby a Round Peak. N. C. 

SWANN. Elwood K Darlington, S. C. 

Tolbert. Garfield Mount Airy, N. C. 

TiDWELL, Joe M Ridgeway. S. C. 

Ward. Marvin M The Hollow. Va. 

WeatheRFORD. Bealer L Darlington. S. C. 

Weatherford. Carl O Darlington. S. C 

West. Grover Coalmount, Ind. 

White, John C Weaverville. N. C. 

Worth, John A Mount Airy, N. C. 

Young, Pink Mooresville, N. C. 

Zeilinger. Joseph A Baldwin, Col. 

PRIVATES 

Baird. Joe K Darlington. S. C. 

B.\0GOTT. Walter B Walterboro. S. C 

Barton. Thomas C Greenville. S. C. 

Barfield. George C Darlington. S. C 

Br.atcher. .Archie Conway. S. C. 

Brewer. Thomas B McKenzie. Tenn. 

Bryant. U'ebster V Johnson Creek. N. C. 

BuRGiN. William F Morristown. Tenn. 

Burr, Friderick S.. Jr Wilmington. N. C. 

Carson, Appleton B Winchester. Tenn. 

Carson. Frank Kannapolis, N. C. 

Carson. Fred O Statesville. N. C. 

Cleveland, Earl C Aberdeen, S. D. 

Clark, William J Berth. Ind. 

Cooper, Norman Linton. Ind. 

Cribb. John R. F. D. No. I. Rhems. S. C. 

Davis, Virgil Cld Fort, N. C. 

Desveaux, Charles Rumford, Maine 

DiLLARD, Willie B Webster, N. C. 

DoBsoN. Howard J Statesville. N. C. 

Edwards, Tevis Taylorsville, N. C 



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Flinn, James W Sevierville, Tenn. 

Floyd, Leland Lake City, S. C. 

Fraser. Dewitt T Darlington, S. C. 

Fraser, Paul B Darlington. S. C. 

Fry. James H Lake City, S. C. 

Foster. Robert L Staiesville. N. C. 

Galer, Earl E Beetz. Col. 

Gibes, Wesley Greenville, S. C. 

GiPsoN, Oliver D Alberiville. Ala. 

Grant, James B Old Fort, N. C. 

Gray, James P Hahnwald. Tenn. 

Green, John W Sewanee. Tenn. 

Greic, James Brookings, S. D. 

Harris. Robert Comfort. Tenn. 

Hart, Jessie M R. F. D. No. 3. Florence, S. C. 

Harper. Ben B Timmonsville, S. C. 

Hayes, James Wampee, S. C. 

Henry. Samuel J Sevierville, Tenn. 

Hawkins. Grover A Duncan, S. C. 

Hoyle, Jacob R. F. D. No. I, Belwood. N. C. 

HowK. Perry O Terre Haute. Ind. 

Johnson, Gus A Darlington, S. C. 

Jones. Harold L Terre Haute, Ind. 

Jones. Herbert W Morven, N. C. 

King. Manuel J Darlington. S. C. 

Lackey. Arry W Statesville. N. C. 

Loncvinis. Joseph Kulpmont. Pa. 

Lee. Adam Darlington. S. C. 

Lemley, Charlie Statesville, N. C. 

Lewis, Ben F Elizabethlown, Tenn. 

LOVESTRAND, ALFRED T Sterling, Col. 

LoYD. Fred E Charles. N. C. 

Llewellyn. David T Scranton. Pa. 

Martin. Oliver C Graham. N. C. 

Mason. James Kansas City, Mo. 

Mathews, Maurice G Miamia, Ariz. 

McDermotte. Louis Terre Haute, Ind. 

Merriman. Ira Knoxvillc. Tenn. 

Mitchell. Carl Brazil. Ind. 

McKnicht, Willie N Mount Airy. N. C. 

MiTCMUM. Eli P Statesville. N. C. 

Moore. Ernest Concord, N. C. 

Moore, Grady H Catawaba, N. C. 

Moose. Jerry J Mooresville. N. C. 

Moose, Thomas M Statesville, N. C. 

Motte, Charles P Darlington. S. C. 

Nations, Joseph N Barkers Creek, N. C. 

Nichols, Walter M Old Fort, N. C. 

OsTWALT, Floy G Statesville. N. C. 

Pace, James E R. F. D. No. 2. Pickens, S. C. 

Payne, James C Statesville. N. C. 

Perkins, Charles F Omaha, Neb. 

Pope, Wade H Fremont, N. C. 

Presnell. Wesley Marion, N. C. 

Powers. John J Duncan. S. C. 

Reis, John H 01yph.int. Pa. 



Roach, Rufus A Rock Hill, S. C. 

Rhoads. Guy Uebana. Mo. 

RoDGERS. Frank Watson, Ala. 

Ross. Charles W Westminster, S. C. 

Scurry. Frederick G Saluda. S. C. 

Short. George S Jasper. Ala. 

Shrader. Andrew Zanesville, Ohio 

Snow, Cephus L Troutman, N. C. 

Solesbee, Paul Grandview, N. C. 

Spencer, Samuel O Jamestown, N. C. 

Speilman, Artie W Woodland Park. Col. 

Stapp. Milton C Woodlawn, Tenn. 

Taylor. Riley R Skyland. N. C. 

Taylor. William H Biltmore, N. C. 

Thorn. Charles B Vma, Ala. 

Thorp, William F Asheville, N. C. 

Vaught, Forrest F Nixonville. S. C. 

Wall. Acy H Gap, N. C. 

Ward. William G Beta. N. C. 

Wilson, Ben M Norwood, S. C. 

Williamson. Dan Lumberlon. N. C. 

Attached Men 

PRIVATES. FIRST CLASS 

MouzoN. Madlson L Kingstree. S. C. 

Price, Jacob Clifton, S. C. 

PRIVATES 

Bulbar, M.\tiiew Framingham, Mass. 

Lara, Manuel Bogalusa. La. 

Leonard. Gus Tioga, N. D. 

Satkowski, Anthony North Abington, Mass. 

List of Men Killed 

PRIVATE 
Willie N. McKnight; relative. Mr. S. .A. McKnight 
(father). Mount Airy, N. C. 

List of Men Sent to Training Camp 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Henry W. Muldrow Darlington. S. C. 

List of Men That Came to Organization 
Since Nov. II, 1918 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Henry W. Muldrow Darlington, S. C. 

List of Men That Left Organization Prior 
to Nov. 11, 1918 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Henry W. Muldrow Darlington. S. C. 

BUGLER 
Lawrence H. Wright Darlington. S. C. 



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Company G, 1 05th Ammunition Train 



In an address delivered before the Palmetto Asso- 
ciation, survivors of the Mexican War, General Mc- 
Gowan, upon one occasion, said: "A high-toned mar- 
tial spirit has always characterized South Carolina. 
The great battles of the War of Independence were 
within her territory. The death of Jasper, the forays 
of Tarleton, the enormities of the Tories, the brilliant 
partisanship of Sumter, the coups de main of Marion, 
and the patriotic spirit of her daughters, are incidents 
never to be forgotten. Her habitual chivalry of char- 
acter may be traced mainly to those glorious recollec- 
tions. She entered warmly into the War of 1812; 
her great orators stood by the side of Henry Clay in 
defense of the national honor, and on the ocean and 
on the battlefield her sons have ever been conspicuous. 

James Tyler was President of the United States, 
James H. Hammond was Governor of South Caro- 
lina, and Wm. M. Myers was Intendent of the town 
of Columbia. The whole population of Richmond 
County was about 1 7,000. The present capitol had 
not been commenced, and the first steam railroad had 
reached Columbia only the year previous, December 
19, 1843, W. W. Eaton, M. R. Clark, Asher 
Palmer, James Cooper, and Elias Pollock secured 
a charter incorporating the Governor's Guards. 

The following gentlemen were elected as the first 
officers: Captain, James D. Tradewell; First Lieu- 
tenant, W. W. Eaton; Second Lieutenant, James 
Cooper; Third Lieutenant, Michael Clark; First Ser- 
geant, Charles B. Hubbell. 

May 13, 1846, three years after the organization 
of the Governor's Guards, the gathering war clouds 
broke, and James K. Polk, President of the United 
States, was authorized by Congress to call for 50,- 
000 volunteers for the war with Mexico. One regi- 
ment was accepted from South Carolina, and one 
company for the regiment was raised in Columbia. 
This company was made up of members of the ex- 
isting companies and of cixilians. and the Governor's 
Guards was well represented in its membership. The 
regiment was made up of companies from various parts 
of the State, and became known as the Palmetto Regi- 
ment. The record of the Palmetto Regiment is most 
graphically and succinctly recorded by General Mc- 
Gowan in these words: "When the regiment first 



mustered on the beach at Vera Cruz, I 0th of March, 
1847, it numbered 974. rank and file. On the 19th 
of June, I 848, when formed on the same strand to 
embark for home, 433 had perished. General Quit- 
man in the course of a speech made these remarks: 
"Before the smoke had ceased to curl over the heads 
of the brave victors, the Palmetto flag — the flag of 
your gallant regiment — was seen floating over the 
conquered walls, the first American flag within the 
City of Mexico. The flag is now preserved in the 
capitol at Columbia. The regiment took part in the 
battles of Vera Cruz, Contreras, Churubusco, Cha- 
pultepec and Garita de Belen. 

At the close of the Mexican War we find A. H. 
Gladden in command of the Governor's Guards. 
Then he was succeeded by Capt. John Meighan. Of 
the officers who commanded the company from 1 848 
to 1861, we find such men as Brigadier-General 
Gladden, Major John Meighan, Col. F. W. Mc- 
Master and Col. A. D. Goodwyn. 

When Governor Pickens ordered the organization 
of ten regiments of infantry for the purpose of ex- 
pelling Major Anderson from Fort Sumter, the Gov- 
ernor's Guards at that time under the command of 
Capt. Wm. H. Casson, offered its services, and was 
mustered into the Second South Carolina Infantry. 
During the bombardment of Fort Sumter the Gover- 
nor's Guards was stationed on the south side of Mor- 
ris Island. No attempt will be made here to trace 
the Governor's Guards through the smoke and car- 
nage of the Civil War. It was commanded succes- 
sively by W. H. Casson, M. A. Shelton, F. Gaillard, 
S. L. Leaphart and M. M. Maddey. But we do 
know that it was at the first battle of Bull Run, in the 
Peninsular campaign, the seven days' battle. It served 
through the Maryland campaign and at Fredericks- 
burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Chickamauga. 
And in Grant's campaign against Richmond we find 
the Governor's Guards again on the firing line in Vir- 
ginia. Then followed the Wilderness. Spottsylvania, 
North Anna, Cold Harbor, and the siege of Peters- 
burg. It was then sent to the Shenandoah Valley, 
where it look part in the battle of Winchester and 
Cedar Creek. Early in January of 1865, the bri- 
gade of which it was a part was sent to South Caro- 










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lina, to assist in the vain attempt to check the march 
of Sherman. Retreating before him it took part in 
the battle of Bentonville, and was included in the sur- 
render of General Johnston at Durham. 

These men did what they believed to be their duty 
as South Carolinians and as soldiers of Lee. No 
higher eulogium is possible. 

The first successful attempt to organize a military 
company in Columbia after the war was made nine 
years after the disbanding of the Southern armies. On 
July 1 3, 1 874, a meeting was held for the purpose 
of organizing a "Rifle Club." At another meeting 
held one week later we find that the following men 
were named as officers: President, Hugh S. Thomp- 
son; First Vice-President, W. C. Swafford; Second 
Vice-President, W. R. Cathcart, and a number of 
other prominent men of Columbia. The men of the 
Governor's Guards had to furnish their own equip- 
ment. In the fall of I 885 the company was issued 
the Springfield Cadet Rifle, 45-caliber. These rifles 
were furnished by the State. At the State Fair in 
1877, a competitive drill took place, in which the 
Governor's Guards and three or four other companies 
from Virginia and Georgia competed. The first prize, 
"open to the world," and a prize for the best drilled 
company in the State, were won by the Governor's 
Guards. 

The result of this contest was hailed with the wild- 
est enthusiasm, and to the present time no member of 
the winning squad has ever been heard to admit the 
possibility of that squad being beaten at that time 
in a drill by "anybody." The Governor's Guards 
were commanded by such men as Governor Thomp- 
son, General Wylie Jones, Eugene E. Calvo, J. M. 
Bateman. Lieut. B. B. McCreery formed a com- 
pany of volunteers in I 898 and they were known as 
the Governor's Guards. They formed a part of the 
Second South Carolina V. T. The company was 
known as Company C. This company was mustered 
into the service of the United States May 24, as com- 
pany K, First South Carolina Regiment, United States 
Volunteers. The company was mustered out Novem- 
ber 10, 1898. 

The following is a partial list of the officers who 
commanded the Governor's Guards from 1 898 to 
1916: Capt, John Black, A. M. Deal. G. R. Rem- 
bert, Christie Benet, Clark Waring, Dibert Jackson 
and J. R. VanMeter. 



Again in 1916, the war clouds were gathering and 
the troop trains rushed southward. It seemed that 
war with Mexico was inevitable, the Governor's 
Guards heeded the call of its country and reported for 
duty. Following is a chronological order of events 
of the Governor's Guards while in the service on the 
Mexican border. 

June 19, 191 6 — Company reported for duty at 
Armory of Company F, 2d S. C. Infantry (Gover- 
nor's Guards), Capt. J. R. VanMeter, commanding; 
1st Lieutenant, Thomas B. Marshall, 2d Lieutenant, 
Archie D. Willis. 

June 24 — Company entrained at Columbia, S. C, 
for Camp Moore, Styx, S. C. Arrived and pitched 
camp same day. 

June 25 to August 8— -Devoted to intensive train- 
ing. Capt. VanMeter relieved and 1st Lieut. Mar- 
shall assumed command July 25, 1916. 

August 9 — Entrained at Slyx, S. C, for El Paso, 
Texas. 

August 1 3 — Arrived at El Paso, Texas. De- 
trained August I 4th and pitched camp at Camp Owen 
Bierne. 

August 1 4 to September 31, 191 6 — Devoted 
to drilling and maneuvers. Capt. Wm. M. Carter 
joined company and assumed command September 
31, 1916. 

October 1 , 191 6 — Left Camp Owen Bierne on 
fourteen-day hike to Las Cruces, New Mexico. 

December 1 — Left in motor trucks for border pa- 
trol at Nona, New Mexico, where company did pa- 
trol duty on Mexican border for sixteen days. 

March 10, 191 7 — Entrained at Camp Owen 
Bierne for Styx, S. C. 

March 16 — Arrived at Styx, S. C. 



Ma 



1917 — Mustered out of Federal 



service. 

After being mustered out of Federal service March 
21, 1917, the Governor's Guards were once more a 
part of South Carolina's National Guard. That is 
how we find the company on July 25, 191 7. I have 
tried to follow the Governor's Guards horn the time 
that they were organized until the present time, On 
the company's seventy-fifth birthday, or "Diamond 
Jubilee," we find it on the Mexican border very near 
the scenes of its first action. Go with us across the 
broad "wind-tossed Atlantic " and you will find the 
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manity. Again, on the seventy-sixth birthday we find 
the Governor's Guards hiking through a blinding snow 
storm. We were at that time attached to the 33d 
Division, and were a part of "the Army of Occupa- 
tion." We were marching through the Grand Duchy 
of Luxemburg. 

All the men are home except our Captain, Wm. 
M. Carter. He is still in the service with the 3d 
Division. 

We hope that the old company will be reorganized 
and still play an important part in the history of 
South Carolina and the nation. Below is a chrono- 
logical order of events from July 25, 191 7, until April 
1, 1919: 

July 25, 1917 — Company reported for duty at 
Company Rendezvous, Columbia. S. C. under call of 
the President, Capt. Wm. M. Carter, commanding; 
1st Lieut. Thomas B. Marshall, 2d Lieut. Peter G. 
Marshall. 

July 26 to August 4 — Company drilled and in- 
structed at old Taylor School, Columbia, S. C. 

August 4 to 20 — Moved from armory and pitched 
tents at University of South Carolina Baseball Park. 

August 20 — Moved to Camp Jackson, Columbia, 
S. C, in motor trucks. 

August 2 1 to September 26 — Did guard duty for 
cantonment. September 15th companies H and F, 
2d South Carolina Infantry, were consolidated and 
converted into "Wagon Company," 105th Ammuni- 
iiQfi Train, Capt. Wm. M. Carter, commanding: !': 
Lieut. Roland H. Fulmer, 2d Lieut. William L. 
Watkins. 

September 26 — Entrained at Camp Jackson for 
Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. Arrived same day. 

September 27 to May 20, 1918 — Devoted to in- 
tensive training at Camp Sevier. Capt. Carter relieved 
of command and Capt. Joel J. Marshall assigned 
October, 1917. Camp moved from Sevier Station 
to Paris Station in October. Captain Marshall re- 
lived of command and Capt. Wm. M. Carter reas- 
signed January 1, 1919. Lieuts. Roland H. Fulmer. 
Thomas B. Marshall, Peter G. Marshall transferred 
October, 1918. 1st Lieut. Edwin C. McNeal as- 
signed to company May, 1919. Lieutenant Watkins 
discharged April, 1919. Stable Sergeant Wad D. 
Allen commissioned 2d Lieutenant February 23, 
1918. 



May 20, 1918 — Loaded our stock and equip- 
ment preparing to move. 

May 21. 1918 — Left Camp Sevier for Camp 
Mills. N. Y. 

May 23 — Arrived Camp Mills. 

May 25 — Left Camp Mills at 6 A.M. for port of 
embarkation. 

May 26 — Crossed the Canadian-United States 
line at 4:55 A.M. and arrived at Montreal, Canada, 
at 7 A.M. Detrained immediatetly and embarked on 
H. M. T. Port Lincoln. Left docks in the after- 
noon and anchored in the St. Lawrence River. 

May 31 — Arrived Halifax, Nova Scotia. An- 
chored in harbor where boat was coaled and pro- 
visioned. 

June 1, 1918 — Sailed from Halifax in convoy of 
thirteen transports and one British cruiser. 

June 1 to 12 — Spent in crossing the Atlantic. En- 
countered all kinds of weather. 

June 10 — Met by five submarine chasers and two 
destroyers, our escort. 

June 1 1 — Three British dirigibles came out to meet 
us. One of the destroyers dropped several depth 
bombs, reporting the destruction of a submarine. 

June I 2 — Arrived Liverpool, England. Docked 
at 4:30 P.M., and marched through city to Camp 
Knotty Ash. 

June 1 3 — Entrained at Camp Knotty Ash in true 
English style, in compartment cars, for Camp Winnal 
Down, Winchester. England. Rested here until 
June 20th. 

June 20 — Entrained at Winchester for Southamfv 
lon. Arrived same day and embarked on transport 
Antrim for France. 

June 21- — After a rough night on the English 
Channel we landed at Le Havre, France, at 5:30 
A.M. Marched through the city to American Rest 
Camp No. 1 . 

June 22 — Left Rest Camp and entrained at Le 
Havre. Forty men to the box car. 

June 23 — Arrived Guer, France, and hiked five 
kilometers to American Artillery Camp, Camp de 
Coetquidan. 

June 24 to August 22 — Devoted to intensive 
training. 

August 22 — Entrained at Guer, France, for the 
front. 



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August 25 — Arrived Toul, France. Detrained in 
morning and rested just outside the city until dark. 
Troop movements were forbidden in daylight on the 
front. Under cover of darkness we resumed our 
march and pitched shelter tents in the Forest de la 
Reine at 10 P.M. 

August 26 to September I 6 — Camped in the Forest 
de la Reine, moving our camp several times on account 
of enemy aeriel observation. Part of company on duty 
at Ammunition Dump, where trucks and caissons were 
loaded for the front. Furnished ammunition under 
shrapnel and shell fire in the St. Mihiel Offensive. 
Operating around Fleury, Benny, Essey, Thaiucourt 
and Bouillionville. 

September 23 — Arrived at Auzeville and quar- 
tered in billets. 

September 26 — Germans shelled our billets and we 
were forced to move to apple orchard just outside the 
village. 

September 26 to Octotber 2 — Attached to 89th, 
79th, 32d, 35th, 37th Divisions in the Argonne For- 
est drive. Hauled ammunition. 

October 2 — Moved to Brabant and camped in 
forest. 

October 3 — Our first casualty. Sergeant Harvey J. 
Kizer, died with pneumonia. 

October 6 — Sergeant Robert R. Pearce died with 
pneumonia, contracted during the night trip to the 
front through rain and a bitter wind, where the com- 
pany had been ordered to manhandle ammunition 
across No-Man's Land. 

October 7 — Began our hike to Verdun front. 

October 9 — Arrived Ambly, France, and quar- 
tered in billets. 

October 1 3 — Company left in motor trucks for 
Grande Tranche Road where we worked in conjunc- 
tion with the 304lh Engineers m repairing the roads 
across "No-Man's Land." Lived in dugouts con- 
structed by the Germans before the St. Mihiel drive 
and almost in sight of the front line trenches. 

October 25 — Returned to Ambly and delivered 
ammunition to artillery in Woevre Offensive. 

November 1 I to December 8 — After the signing 
of the armistice we remained at Ambly and policed 
the area around the St. Mihiel Sector and the Woevre. 
2d Lieut. Wad D. Allen commissioned 1st Lieu- 
tenant. 

December 8 — Began our march towards Germany, 



hiking twenty-seven miles to Olley, where we spent 
the first night. 

December 9 — Hiked fifteen miles to Spincourt. 

December 10 — Hiked ten miles to Longuyon. 

December 1 I — Hiked twelve miles to Longwy. 

December 12 — Hiked fifteen miles to Esch in the 
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. 

December 1 5 — Hiked fifteen miles to Alzingen, 
where we rested four days. 

December 19 — Hiked fifteen miles to Rollingen 
through a blinding snow. 

December 22 — Hiked twelve miles to Pettingen, 
where we remained until January 6, guarding the 
railroads of the Grand Duchy. 

January 6, 1919 — Began our hike back to France, 
hiking five miles to Schonfels. 

January 7 — Hiked twelve miles to Bettange. 

January 8 — Hiked through snow and rain to Ser- 
rouville. 

January 9 — Hiked fifteen miles to Fleiville. 

January 1 — Hiked twenty miles to Mars-le-Tour, 
where we rested one day. 

January 12 — Hiked through snow twenty miles to 
Heudicourt. 

January I 3 — Hiked twenty-three miles to Lagney, 
where we turned in all stock and surplus equipment. 

January 2 I — Hiked four miles to Trondes, where 
we entrained for embarkation area. 

January 25 — Arrived at Evron, detrained and 
hiked five kilometers to Mezangers. 

January 25 to February 6 — Remained at Mezan- 
gers doing regular routine of drill. Passed in re- 
view before General Pershing, January 30, 1919, at 
Evron. Capt. Carter transferred to 3d Division. 
Lieuteant Allen assumed command January 26th. 

February 6 — Entrained at Evron for embarkation 
center, arriving at Forwarding Camp, A. E. C, near 
Le Mans same day. 

February 6 to March 8 — Remained at Forward- 
ing Camp, where we were deloused, re-equipped and 
inspected. 

March 10 — Entrained for port of embarkation. 

March 1 1 — Arrived St. Nazaire. Were put in 
isolation camp. 

March ! 2 — Were given our physical examination. 

March i 4 — Embarked on U. S. S. Mercury. 

March 27 — Landed at Charleston, S. C, and en- 
trained for Camp Jackson, where we were discharged 
April 1st. 




Captain Ralston's Cartoons 

The monotony of the fourteen days' journey from St. Nazaire to Charleston was greatly relieved by the fun occasioned by these cartoons. They 
were posted dally on the ship's bulletin board and commanded greater interest than the wireless news bulletins. Capl. Ralston returned lo the 
United States with the 105th Ammunition Train on the transport Queen of the Netherlands. 



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The Governor's Guards have served with honor for 
more than seventy-six years. They have fought 
through four wars and did border patroL Any one 
has a right to be proud that he can say I was once 
a member of Company G, 1 05th Ammunition Train, 
better known as the Governors Guards of Columbia. 
S. C. 

ROSTER OF COMPANY' G 
105th Ammunition Train 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Weir, Clarence C 1919 Assembly St., Columbia, S. C. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Boozer, Robert G 709 Caldwell Si.. Newberry, S. C. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Bates, William Lee Blyibewood, S. C. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
Mays, Sampson B Edgefield, S. C. 

SERGEANTS 

KoosA, Fred L 723 Assembly St., Columbia, S. C. 

Balentine, Colin D R. F. D. No. 3. Columbia, S. C. 

RoUQUIE, Steve W 1604 Senate St., Columbia. S. C. 

Carter, Boyd Columbia, S. C. 

Barr, Paul R Gilbert, S. C. 

Hatchell, Tyler L 1005 Oak St., Columbia. S. C. 

Clowney, Sadler W 1507 Gregg St., Columbia, S. C. 

D.wis, George F R. F. D. No. 6. Edgefield, S. C. 

Vaughan, Walter F...241 W. Broad Si., Darlinglon. S. C. 

Barrows, Benjamin R Seelyville, Ind. 

Webb, LeRoy M Charleston, S. C. 

CORPORALS 

David, James C Darlington, S. C. 

Rikard, William New Brookland, S. C. 

Boyles, Dewey B 2807 De\ine St., Columbia, S. C. 

Hook, Grady A R. F. D. No. 3, Lexington. S. C. 

Denham, John D New Brookland. S. C. 

Norwood. Jasper C Mount Holly, N. C. 

Rose, William H 1110 Barnwell St., Columbia, S. C. 

Jones, Hazzard New Brookland, S. C. 

Stack, Thomas P 1-401 Lower St., Columbia, S. C. 

Frick, George L Blythewood, S. C. 

MooREHOUSE, Fred Niobrara, Neb. 

Montgomery, Theron E...2511 Devine St., Columbia, S. C. 

Butler, Dova E Duggar, Ind. 

Hilderbrand, Jesse C Sherrib Ford, N. C. 

Ott, George M Swansea, S. C. 

SwEEZY. Joseph Lawndale, N. C. 

Folk, Jesse C Denmark, S. C. 

Fuller, Amon Mitchell, Neb. 

Colvard, Frank H North Wilksboro, N. C. 

James, John L., ..Care Belmont Pharmacy, Charlotte, N. C. 

Ingle, Oliver C Winnsboro, S. C. 

Rook, David O Nacogdoches. Texas 

Levine, Robert 10 Main St.. Woonsockct, R. I. 

Thornton, Fred 1517 Park St., Columbia. S. C. 



COOKS 

Ellis, General W Gaffney, S. C. 

Prince. Francis M Lakesland, S. C. 

Reece, Frank B Edgefield, S. C. 

HORSESHOERS 
CoTHRAN, Clarence G.. .R. F. D. No. 5, Westminster, S. C. 
Robinson, Miller G Sylva, N. C. 

MECHANICS 

Dowdy, John A.. Staiesville, N. C. 

Deal. Bryant Staiesville, N. C. 

SADDLER 
Goodman, Adcer O Bellwood, N. C. 

WAGONERS 

Abell, Brooks C Blythewood, S. C. 

Addy, William D Cayce, S. C. 

Blanton, Ed P Shelbyville, N. C. 

BoovEY, Charlie G Staiesville, N. C. 

Bassell, William A Brooksion, Col. 

Brown, Joe Blythewood, S. C. 

Camin. Herbert W R. F. D. No. 2, Beemer, Neb. 

Cronin, John F Scottsbluff, Neb. 

Chapman, Ambrose Lawndale, N. C. 

Church, Roy G Staiesville, N. C. 

Clyde, Walter N Craylon, Neb. 

Cutting, Vernon Hickory, N. C. 

Dayberry, RomiE F Marion, N. C. 

Driggers, Gordon Drake, S. C. 

GoNTER. Orle E Terre Haute, Ind. 

Hedrick, Ralph Staiesville, N. C. 

HoDEN, William F 1816 Dorcas St., Omaha, Neb. 

Hollman, William J Springfield, S. C. 

HoLCOMBE, Raymond E 28 W. 8th St., Greenville, S. C. 

HoNEYCUT, Elmer E Elmwood, N. C. 

JlREL, Carl E 1921 Huger St., Columbia, S. C. 

Jordan, Wallace A Ellis, Kan. 

Lackey, Ivey Staiesville, N. C. 

Lee. Odus E Boiling Springs, N. C. 

Lewis, George L Manowi. Neb. 

Phillips, Lewis T R. F. D. No. 2, Waynesville, N. C. 

Roberts, William A 731 Assembly St., Columbia, S. C. 

Smith, Julius W Shelby, N. C. 

Shealy, Lester Lexington, S. C. 

Strickland, Rufus W Eniwislle, N. C. 

Shoemaker, Roy A Staiesville. N. C. 

Waits, David Lexington, S. C. 

Waldrup, Horace R R. F. D. No. 1, Del Rio, Tenn. 

Williams, Irwin C Lancaster, S. C. 

Whitener, Sidney O Troulman, N. C. 

Whitmire, Bunion Greenville, S. C. 

BUGLER, FIRST CLASS 

Goodnouch, Leonard D Honea Path, S. C. 

BUGLER 

Inaeinet. George D Schofield, S. C. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Carter, Earl L New Brookland, S. C. 

Chappell, Grant Tecumseh, Okla. 



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Craig. Harrv L Staiesville, N. C. 

DeKevper, Adolf New Brookland. S. C. 

Dew, Arthur New Brookland, S. C. 

Fetner, Rov 1716 Gadsden St.. Columbia, S. C. 

Gilbert, Benjamin L Harisville. S. C. 

GoBLE. Otis C Slalesville, N. C. 

Hardv, Ollie E Terre Haute, Ind. 

Hill, Hugo 38 Beriha St., Charleston, S. C. 

Keel, Lonnie L Wagener, S. C. 

Ostwalt. Perry Staiesville, N. C. 

Parker, Earnest R Siatesville, N. C. 

Privette, Clyde 619 5th Ave.. Greensboro, N. C. 

Rabe, William F R. F. D. No. 2, Beemer. Neb. 

Rankin, Edgar R Troutman, N. C. 

Roland, Toley Gaston, S. C. 

Rolf, Philip R. F. D. No. 7. West Point. Neb. 

Wilson. Claud C Blylhcwood, S. C. 

PRIVATES 

AsHHURST, Henry R Aiken, S. C. 

Blackwell, Charlie New Brookland, S. C. 

Bouknicht, Fred W 1223 Calhoun St., Columbia. S. C. 

Bowman, George F Lexington, S. C. 

Brown, Clint Staiesville, N. C. 

Bowman, John W Lexington, S. C. 

Bradley, Guss Speed, N. C. 

Broom. Floyd H York. S. C. 

BucHHOLZ, Rudolf Bancroft, Neb. 

Carter, Auburn H New Brookland, S. C. 

Childress. Nathan P Scottsboro. Ala. 

Crawford. Audie W Shelbum. Ind. 

Creel. Lonnie Birmingham, Ala. 

Delfs, Louis F Chaico, Neb. 

DooDY, John W Omaha, Neb. 

Drussell, George 405 W. Morrell St., Streator, III. 

Emond, AmedEE 21 Walnut St.. Lewiston. Maine 

FoULK, Fred S 1115 Green St., Columbia, S. C. 

Gantt, Eure L Bellwood, N. C. 

Gantt, Lewis Wagener, S. C. 

Gass, Rufus B R. F. D. No. 6. Baileyton. Tenn. 

Greer, Cliff S R. F. D. No. 4 Unadilla, Ga. 

Hacker, Edwin K 430 6th St., Pittsburg. Pa. 

Hammond. Rudolph. . . .328 Elmwood Ave., Columbia, S. C. 

Harris. Ernest M York, Ala. 

Hein. George R. F. D. No. F. Terre Haute, Ind. 

HoRAJECK, Leo 126 lolid Alley, Johnstown, Pa. 

Howard. Walter N Irmo. S. C. 

Kay, Charlie M Abbeville, S. C. 

Lancston, Claud Crossville, Ala. 

Lee, Norman H 1315 Park St.. New Brookland. S. C. 

Maher. Michael J Dudley. Pa. 

Matherly, Lyman 2500 Dillman St., Terre Haute, Ind. 

McCarsoN, TaLMAGE Greenville. S. C. 

McGradY, Irby H New Brookland. S. C. 

Price. Elzie R Redf ord. Mo. 

Rabun, Thurlow C Bremen. Ga. 

Reynolds, Henry L New Brookland. S. C. 

RiKARD, Melton M New Brookland. S. C. 

Rushing. William L Livinoston. Ala. 



Sharpe. Arthur Springfield. S. C. 

Shealy. Eugene O Nichols, S. C. 

Stack. William H 1401 Lower St.. Columbia, S. C. 

Summey. Erwin J Dalton. Ga. 

Ryan. William. .. .2641 E. Leheigh Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa. 

Wallace. Buck New Brookland. S. C. 

WiLHiTE, Charles O New Market, Tenn. 

Wilson, Thomas E Shelby, N. C. 

Weicker, Fred W Tuscarora, Pa. 

Attached for Duty 

PRIVATES 

Colin, Louis New York, N. Y. 

Devens. Harry M Winchendon. Mass. 

Gervase. Michael New York, N. Y. 

Geier, William J Huntington, Pa. 

Golby, Frederick W Johnstown. Pa. 

McMuLLEN. Oscar L Ashland, Miss. 

CORPORALS 

Shuler, John H Aiken, S. C. 

Uren, Paul R Kings Mountain, N. C. 

Died of Disease 

MESS SERGEANT 
Kizer, Harvey J.; died October 3, 1918, at Vaubecourt, 
Evacuation Hospital No. 9; nearest relative. Miss Matlie 
L. Kizer, sister, St. George, S. C. 

SERGEANT 
Pearce, Robert R. ; died October 6, 1918. at Vaubecourt, 
Evacuation Hospital No. 9; nearest relative. Christopher 
C. Pearce. father. Columbia, S. C. 

Men Who Left Organization Prior to 
Nov. M, 1918 

SERGEANTS 

Hartin, George E Address Unknown 

Bates. Dawson L Address Unknown 

CORPORALS 

Talbert. Ben F Address Unknown 

Rae, Judson K Address Unknown 

HORSESHOER 

HoRNSBY. John W Address Unknown 

WAGONER 
Price. Julian R Address Unknown 

PRIVATE. FIRST CLASS 
Floyd. Clayton Address Unknown 

PRIVATES 

BuRCHELL, James Address Unknown 

Green, Sam Address Unknown 

Jamison, John B Address Unknown 

HandlEY, Guy M Address Unknown 

Loschiavo, Anthony Address Unknown 




history of the 
105th mobile ordnance 

repair shop 




The 105th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop 



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The Kitchens at Le Mans 



The 1 05th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop 



The 105th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop 
was organized for the purpose of maintenance 
and upkeep of motor transportation and ord- 
nance equipment of the Ordnance Department. 
The enhsted personnel of this organization were 
men of special qualifications selected from the 
entne 30th Division. 

Second Lieutenant Francis O. Enberg, Ord- 
nance N. A., was assigned in November, 1917, 
to organize the company. It was organized 
December 3, 1917, by S. O. No. 90, Head- 
quarters 30th Division, Camp Sevier, S. C. On 
December 5, the following men were ordered 
to proceed to Kenosha, Wis., Clintonville, 
Wis., Peoria, 111., Rock Is'and Arsenal, 111., 
and to Springfield Armory, Mass., for instruc- 
tion in motor, small arms, and ordnance equip- 
ment repairs, the courses lasting from one to 
three months. 

To Clintonville, Wis. — Sergeant Wade M. Craig; 
Privates Oliver R. Winfrey, Pitts Bradfors, Hal C. 
Winfrey; Privates, first class, Ferdinand A. Hessler, 
William J. Singleton. 



To Peoria, 111. — Sergeant Fred W. Odum ; Pri- 
vate, first class, Cyrus T. Porter; Privates Charles 
W. Duffy and John H. Schnibben. 

To Rock Island Arsenal, 111. — Sergeant Alf E. 
Clagett, Sergeant Ollie V. Mayo; Corporals Willie 
Rice, Willie F. Sawyers; Private, first class, Laris M. 
Coldston; Private Sylvester J. Ryan. 

To Springfield Armory, Mass. — Privates George 
Trolinger, Basil B. Smith, Joseph L. Dollard, Ver- 
non S. Stroupe, and Coy E. Singleton. 

During the training of the 30th Division at Camp 
Sevier, this company performed the regular ordnance 
duties at the camp and also continued the school of 
motor equipment. In March, 1918, Second Lieut. 
George A. Taylor, Ordnance U. S. R., was assigned 
to this company. He continued his duties as instruc- 
tor of the machine gun school. Numerous promotions 
were made among the enlisted men. 

First Lieut. D. E. Holmes reported to Camp Se- 
vier on April 14th, 1918, taking command of the 
company on the 15th. The classes in artillery, small 
arms equipment, and automobile repairing continued 
until May 21st, when the company entrained for 
New York. 



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The officers and enlisted men going to Fiance were 
as follows: OFFICERS 

First Lieut. Donald E. Holmes. 
Second Lieut. Francis O. Emberg. 
Second Lieut. George A. Taylor. 

Men 
Clagett, Alf E., Ord. Sergt. 
Craig, Wade M., Ord. Sergt. 
Duffy, Charles W., Ord. Sergt. 
Hix, Harry E., Ord. Sergt. 
Stroupe, Vernon S., Ord. Sergt. 
Mayo, Ollie V., Ord. Sergt. 
Odum, Fred W., Ord. Sergt. 
Ryan, Sylvester J., Sergt. 
Winfrey, Hal G., Sergt. 
Winfrey, Oliver R., Sergt. 
Hessler, Ferdinand A., Sergt. 
Trolinger, George, Sergt. 
Galloway, Jesse C, Sergt. 
Schnibben, John H., Sergt. 
Singleton, William J., Sergt. 
Billings, Wallace F., Sergt. 
Bradford, Pitts, Sergt. 
Goldston, Laris M., Sergt. 
Crawford, Noel M., Corp. 
Welch, James A., Corp. 

Rice, Willie, Corp. 

Sessions, Benjamin E., Corp. 

McDaniel, Wallace T., Corp. 

Porter, Cyrus T., Corp. 

Martin, Sam F., Corp. 

Singleton, Coy E., Corp. 

Hardin, Harry, Corp. 

Battleson, Jesse, Cook. 

Biddle, Nathan C, Cook. 

Hill, Wallace R., Private, First Class. 

Braye, John M., Private. 

Swanson, Otto L., Private, First Class. 

Smith, Basil B., Private, First Class. 

Duncan, DeWitt T., Private, First Class. 

Benson, Arvid A., Private, First Class. 

Kaesser, Phillip E., Private. 

Deputy, Clarence, Private. 

Gundlach, Theodore J., Private. 

Storey, Wm. J., Private. 

Sawyers, Willie F., Private. 

Chandler, Chas.. Private. 

Bowles, Walter A.. Private. 



At Camp Mills the personal equipment of the men 
was inspected and a large amount of new equipment 
issued. Lieuts. Holmes and Taylor were temporarily 
relieved of duty for the purpose of transportation, and 
Lieut. Enberg designated to cross the Atlantic with 
the company. 

On the morning of May 25th, just two days after 
arriving at Camp Mills, the company entrained for 
Montreal, arriving at the destination the following 
morning. The first touch of hardship was experienced 
on this trip as two sandwiches per man purchased en 
route were all that stood between the men and starva- 
tion. 

From the train the company went directly aboard 
the steamship Burma, an English transport. The 
Burma proved to be amply supplied with goat meat, 
but very little else. The first two days' travel aboard 
the ship was down the St. Lawrence River, which 
was filled with floating ice. Two days were spent 
in the basin at Halifax within sight of the ruins caused 
by a recent munition explosion. At about II a. m. 
on the first of June the long journey to Europe started, 
the convoy consisting of 1 3 transports, one mystery 
ship, a tanker and the British cruiser H. M. S. S. 
Donegal. 

The first day out a fog was encountered. This 
lasted three days, and during this time none of the 
other ships could be seen. The men wore life pre- 
servers at all times, slept in hammocks and spent their 
time with setting up exercises, inspections, fire drill, 
battle drill, and abandoned ship drill. The ship 
followed a zigzag course, and when the fog lifted 
and the other ships of the convoy could be seen, every 
one of them was exactly in the position in which it 
had been three days before upon entering the fog. 

A northern route was followed, and many ice- 
bergs were seen. Three submarine chasers joined the 
convoy when still three days out of Liverpool. The 
following day a submarine was sighted. The mys- 
tery ship proved to be well armed. The chasers 
attacked the submarine, dropping four depth bombs. 
On June 1 I th a dirigible balloon joined the con- 
voy, staying near the ships at all times until they 
reached port. 

On June 1 2th the company arrived in Liverpool, 
disembarked late in the afternoon and entrained for 
Winchester, England, arriving the following morning. 
From Winchester a march of three miles was made to 
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and other company properly in addition to their 
packs. Winall Downs was a typical rest camp, be- 
ing very short on rations, and all organizations being 
required to make a march of at least eight miles daily. 
The drudgery of the daily march was greatly light- 
ened by taking in points of historical interest in and 
around Winchester. Among these were the Win- 
chester cathedral, castle, etc. 

On June 20th the company marched to Wmchester 
and entramed for South Hampton, where Lieut. 
Holmes and Lieut. Taylor rejcined the command. 

After an all-day wait on the dock the company 
boarded the British Steamship Antrim, and started 
a rough vide across the channel. There was no room 
to sit down, much less lie down, and it rained so that 
it was impossible to go out on deck. Early the follow- 
ing morning the ship docked at Le Havre. 

Another long hike was made here to a so-called 
rest camp and another hike back the next day to the 
train. Guer was reached after two days and a night 
in box cars marked 8 Chevaux or 40 Hommes. An- 
other march took us to Camp Coetquidan. At this 
camp, under the supervision of the permanent ordnance 
personnel, all of the French 75 m-m guns issued to 
the brigade were overhauled, inspected and tested be- 
fore going to the range. Seme 155 m-m howitzers 
were also repaired. 

On July 1 0th the M. O. R. S. left Camp Coet- 
quidan, going to Is-sur-Tille Fronde to receive train- 
ing in the repair of artillery, machine guns, small arms, 
end ordnance equipment. It was then plain that the 
purpose of the M. O. R. S. was to repair lac above 
material and not to repair motor equipment as was 
originally expected. 

At Is-sur-Tille the men of the artillery section at- 
tended the artillery repair school, taking an extensive 
course in the repair of the 155 m-m howitzer, 75 m-m 
field guns and 37 m-m guns. Lieut. Holmes and 
Enberg also attended this school. Lieut. Taylor and 
the men of the equipment section attended the machine 
gun and small arms school. Some of the men special- 
ized in the repair of leather goods and v\eb and cloth 
equipment. 

Orders were received at this paint for the artillery 
repair section to be equipped and proceed to Toul to 
rejoin the 55th Brigade. It was impossible for the 
small arms section to go out at that lime as no equip- 
ment was available for them. 




About this time the personnel of the equipment sec- 
tion were sent to a new and advanced course of instruc- 
tion at the advance ordnance depot in the maintenance 
and repair of small arms, machine guns and auto- 
mc.tic rifles, not only the ones used by the U. S. Army, 
but all arms used by the Allies. 

Machine gun studies were Vickers, Bro^vning heavy, 
and Hotchkiss. 

Automatic Rifles. — Chauchat (French) and Cal. 
30, Browning light and Lewis. 

Automatic Pistol. — Calibre 45 Smith & Wesson, 
and Colt revolvers. 

Springfield Rifle. — 191 7 Model also, and 37 m-m 
gun used to spot machine gun nests. 

This school was very complete. The instructors 



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were the most competent men that could be found and 
the officers in charge were men of experience, many 
of whom had been engaged in the manufacture of arms 
before the war. Forty-two days were required to com- 
plete this course. At the end of the course the men 
were graduated and sent back to their organization 
for assignments as expert small arms men. Three men 
were retained as instructors to teach succeeding 

M. O. R. S. 

At the time this outfit had completed its course 
there were a large number of divisions rushed to the 
front and as machine guns were scarce and quite a 
number had been sent back needing only minor repairs, 
most of the personnel were attached to the machine 
gun section of the shops as expert machine gun and 
small arms men. Here they put all the guns in first- 
class condition and used them in equipping new 
divisions. 

All salvage guns, as well as all new guns, wtre sent 
to this shop, tested and inspected before being sent into 
action. Every gun was dismounted and each part in- 
spected by an expert gun man, then reassembled, 
taken into the firing pit and tested under fire, so as to 
be sure that they were in perfect condition before being 
allowed to go to the front. 

About this time the infantry were capturing large 
numbers of German Maxim guns. The American 
army was still short of machine guns, so it was up 
to the machine gun repair men to try and remedy this 
shortage as well as make use of the captured German 
guns. They began experimenting with them with the 
view of remodeling them to shoot U. S. caliber 30 
ammunition. With their mechanical ability they very 
soon had these Fritzie guns shooting Uncle Sam's 
ammunition. 

In addition to the shop work some of the personnel 
were used from time to time to go to the front in 
charge of ordnance material. It was their duty to 
take a car loaded with guns, ammunition, field equip- 
ment or any other ordnance material and stay right 
with it and see that the supplies were delivered 
promptly and to the proper units. The quick delivery 
of these supplies was very important, as a little delay 
or a car going astray might mean great hardship and 
loss to the units concerned. 

The next event of interest to happen to the small 
arms or equipment section was an order to draw full 
equipment and motor vehicles. These were drawn 
and, as soon as the trucks were put in good running 



order, the outfit pulled out. The shop was equipped 
with : 

One Nash Quad., Art. repair truck. 
One F. W. D. Art. supply truck. 
One F. W. D. Equipment repair truck. 
One Dodge light repair truck. 

The trucks were equipped for doing all kinds of 
gun and machine repair work. The Art. repair truck 
was really a small machine shop on wheels and had 
mounted on it a lathe, drill press and grinder, all of 
which were electrically driven by a small power plant 
separate from the truck motor. The other trucks were 
equipped with every imaginable tool and a full supply 
of spare parts for small arms and machine guns. 

The trip across country for six days with plenty 
of snow and rain was very cold, and as the roads were 
in bad shape, the trip took longer than was expected. 
This trip was made through some of the most beau- 
tiful country in France, and the men who made it 
vs'ill remember it for many years to come. Only Lieut. 
Taylor and eight men came through on the trucks, so 
the rest of the men were sent by rail and were with the 
division waiting when the trucks arrived. 

As soon as the company had assembled, Lieut. 
Taylor reported to the C. G., 30th Division, and the 
shop was attached to the 105 th Supply Train for 
duty. Here the shop worked, repairing motor trucks 
and motorcycles as well as ordnance equipment, while 
some of the men helped on convoy work with the 
supply train. 

The shop was next relieved from duty with the 
105th Supply Train and ordered to join the headquar- 
ters and artillery sections, 105th M. O. R. S., with 
the 55th Field Artillery Brigade at the forwarding 
camp, near Le Mans, in readiness to be transported to 
the U. S. A. 

Before leaving Is-Sur-Tille the artillery repair sec- 
tion drew a repair truck and a freight car load of 
spare gun parts. The repair truck was equipped vsnth 
a four-cylinder engine directly connected to an elec- 
tric generator, which supplied current for the lathe, 
drill press, grinder, electric drill, air compressor and 
lights. A number of lights were furnished with stands 
to be placed on the ground, throwing light on work 
which could not be done on the truck. In addition to 
the tools mentioned above, a complete acetylene weld- 
ing outfit, air hammer and chipper, and a complete 
assortment of small tools was furnished. The lathe 
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Page one hundred nineteen 



and thread cutting, both U. S. and metric standards. 
Lieut. Enberg and Sergt. Craig drove the truck to 
Toul, being unfortunate enough to overturn the truck 
in a ditch when a steering knuckle broke. Fortunately 
no one ■wa.s, seriously hurt. Lieut. Holmes and the 
balance of the men went by train. Before leaving 
the yards in Is-Sur-Tille the car in which the men were 
sleeping was hit by a string of box cars. The car was 
wrecked and nearly overturned, but again bruises and 
a shaking up was the extent of the injuries to the men. 

At Toul it was found that the brigade was not yet 
in the area. The M. O. R. S. was billeted in French 
barracks in Toul for eight days while awaiting orders. 
Every night during the stay in Toul Boche planes came 
over, and on most of these nights bombs were dropped. 
On one of these occasions three bombs dropped en- 
tirely too close for comfort. 

On Aug. 24th the M. O. R. S. joined the brigade 
and moved into the Royameux Artillery Park, on a 
hill just north of Menil la Tour, directly south of 
Flirey. The shop was under observation at all times 
from Mont Sec, and trucks and guns could only be 
brought to the shop at night. The brigade was at- 
tached to the 89th Division, and Colonel Topham, the 
divisional ordnance officer, took a great interest in the 
operations of the M. O. R. S. Through his efforts 
the shop obtained three Pierce Arrow trucks of five- 
ton capacity, with large English bodies, a Dodge light 
delivery car, and a motorcycle and side car. Two 
more motorcycles with side cars were obtained later. 
The Dodge was lost later, but other vehicles were kept 
throughout the war and did splendid work. Two 
spare French 75 m-m guns complete were obtained 
for the purpose of exchanging when extensive repairs 
had to be made. 

The men of the organization were well impressed 
with the accuracy of the Germ?n shell fire when the 
Germans blew up an ammunition dump across the 
road from the shop. The first shells landed perilously 
close to the shop location. The range was then 
changed, and the shells started dropping into the am- 
munition dump. A display of fireworks started at 
5 P.M., which lasted until morning. Some gas shells 
blew up, but the wind was blowing toward the dump, 
and no gas came into the shop. Four of the men dis- 
appeared at the first shot, and were not seen until 1 
o'clock the next morning. 

At 1 A.M. on September 12th the bombardment 
opened for the St. Mihiel drive. This was a wonder- 




ful spectacle as seen from the hill where the shop was 
located. By 8 A.M. the German prisoners began to 
come past the shop, 2,500 passing during the day. 
Toward evening Lieut. Holmes started in a side car 
to Flirey to get a location for the shop in Flirey. The 
traffic was so congested that a motorcycle could not 
get to Bernecourt, and the trip was finished on foot. 
The divisional chief of staff would not allow the 
M. O. R. S. to attempt to go through Flirey as the 
traffic was so jammed that it was impossible to get 
ambulances and ammunition to the new front, which 
had moved far to the north. The best that could be 
done was to move to Bernecourt. 

At Bernecourt the shop was set up between the 
walls of a building wh-ch had the roof shot off. There 
were no buildings with roofs remaining on them in 
either Bernecourt or Flirey — the latter had very little 
left but a terrible odor. During the days m Berne- 
court most of the men had an opportunity to explore 
the battlefield north of Flirey. The burial parties 
were working day and night for a long time at this 
point as the ground had been strongly held by the 



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Bosche. Further efforts to get past Flirey were with- 
out results, and on the 15th the M. O. R. S. started 
to the Meuse-Argonne front, one night and a day be- 
ing spent in the Foret de la Reine. 

The move from Berneccurt to Auzeville was made 
entirely by night. The trucks were so heavily loaded 
that part of the men were obliged to march every night. 
The days were spent keeping under cover in some shell- 
torn village. It rained continually. The sky was lit 
up by flashes from the big guns at night and the guns 
could be heard at all times. Whenever the rain 
would stop and the sky clear a little the Bosche plains 
would come over and the traffic would stop until they 
departed. Often there would be infantry, artillery, 
and truck trains on the road at the same time, and 
the whole night would be consumed in getting a short 
distance. No lights of any kind were used, and the 
men were not even allowed to smoke. 

Auzeville was reached on the morning of Septem- 
ber 20th. The shop was set up in a barn and the 
men billeted in another barn. A great deal of work 
was done here, as the artillery had gone through the 
St. Mihiel drive and the long march to the new front 
without repairs being made. The artillery regiments 
were very short of horses and it was found necessary 
to go up to the advance regimental headquarters with 
trucks and bring the guns back. At least one truck 
was kept on the road in this work, and often three 
were in use at a time. The men also went to the 
battery positions and made many minor repairs. Dur- 
ing active firing a spare gun would be loaded into a 
truck and taken to a point on the nearest road to the 
battery position. Horses would be used to pull the 
damaged gun out of position, bring it to the road, and 
for hauling the new gun back. The 155 m-m guns 
could not be loaded on the trucks and had to be 
dragged behind. This necessitated very slow speed 
and hard pulling. Often a 75 m-m gun would be 
loaded into a truck and a 155 m-m howitzer hooked 
on behind. 

While at Auzeville the Bosche shelled the town 
intermittently, causing numerous casualties, but the 
M. O. R. S. had none. The men on the trucks also 
found themselves under shell fire often and had some 
close calls. When the Meuse-Argonne drive started 
it resulted in much hard work for the M. O. R. S. 

On October 5th the shop moved to Brabant, which 
was closer to the front. An excellent location was 
obtained in Brabant and the work continued as before. 



Besides artillery repair work, automobiles, water 
wagons, delousers, and a little of everything else were 
repaired. 

On October 9th the shop moved to Troyon sur 
Meuse, a small town just south of Verdun, where one 
of the forts of Verdun is located. The artillery was 
on the Woevre sector straight east of Troyon. The 
guns had been hauled to this new sector behind trucks 
at a high rate of speed. Nearly all of the guns had 
oil leaks rnd needed sight repairs. This was due to 
terrific vibration caused by the high speed of moving. 
Three German howitzers were captured and these 
were thoroughly overhauled and put in firing condi- 
tion by the M. O. R. S. so that some of the large 
amount of captured ammunition could be used to 
advantage. Most of the guns of the brigade had 
been repaired when the Woevre offensive started on 
November 7th. This offensive was stopped by the 
signing of the armistice on November I I th. All of 
the remaining guns in the brigade were then thor- 
oughly overhauled. All spare parts, spare guns, 
trucks and equipment were put in first-class shape, 
and on December 8th the M. O. R. S. started to 
Germany. At this time the brigade was attached to 
the 33rd Division, which was in the third army. 

The old battle front was crossed on the first day, the 
line of march being through Verdun and Etain to 
Ollie. This town had not been occupied by Ameri- 
can troops since the Germans left. Before the com- 
pany had been in town thirty minutes every man was 
armed with a German rifle and plentifully supplied 
with ammunition. After two days' rest the trip was 
continued, one night being spent in each of the follow- 
ing towns: Spincourt, Longuyon and Longwy. The 
420 m-m howitzers with which the Germans tried to 
take Verdun were seen at Spincourt. The march 
from Longwy to Esch Luxemburg was through a 
corner of Alsace-Lorrain. Four days were spent in 
Esch sur Azlette. Nearly every man in the company 
made real friends in Esch. The people of Luxem- 
burg did everything in their power to make the Ameri- 
can troops feel at home. 

On December 16th the M. O. R. S. moved to 
Fentingen, just south of the city of Luxemburg. The 
weather was very cold, and the only available billet 
was in the haymow of a barn. 

On December 24th the shop moved to Mersch, 
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at Mersch a number of men had an opportunity to 
get over into Treves, Germany. 

On January 8th the M. O. R. S. started back to 
France with orders to turn in all equipment and en- 
train for the embarkation center to prepare for sailing 
to the States. It was one hard day's drive to Mars 
le Tour, where a rest of three days was made. Mars 
le Tour is a town of historic interest, both m the War 
of 1870 and the present war. Another day's drive 
was through the old battle lines, Flirey, Bernecourt, 
and past the Royameux Artillery Park to Lagney. 
Singularly enough, this town, from which all material 
and equipment was turned in, was within easy walking 
distance of the point where the M. O. R. S. had 
started into the campaign some five months before. 

On the morning of January I 9lh the M. O. R. S. 
entrained, being loaded in real American box cars with 
a real American locomotive and an American train 
crew. It was necessary to have a French pilot, how- 
ever, and after waiting on the train eight hours the 
pilot arrived. Three days and three nights were re- 
quired to reach Evron. The rain was coming down 
in torrents when the train finally arrived in Evron at 
3 A.M., but it was necessary to detrain and find bil- 
lets. By the time every one was billeted the rain had 
changed to snow and every one was wet and about 
frozen. Two days later the billet was given up and a 
stone hut in a wood near Mezangers was called 
"home." 

General Pershing inspected the men and remarked 
about the unusually large fine-looking men in the 
M. O. R S. 



On February 6th the M. O. R. S. moved to Le 
Mans, where the men were deloused and re-equipped 
with new clothing. Lieut. Holmes was promoted to 
the rank of Captain while at Le Mans. On March 
8th the final move in France was made to St. Nazaire. 
The company was broken up upon departure from Le 
Mans, Lieut. Enberg and a number of the men going 
to organizations formed for the purpose of going direct 
to camps near their homes. This left two officers and 
twenty-five men. 

The M. O. R. S. went aboard the U. S. S. 
Mercury on March 1 4th and on the following day 
bid farewell to France. The weather was remark- 
ably fine throughout the voyage. On March 26th 
the Mercury docked at Charleston, S. C, and the 
company debarked and went straight to Camp 
Jackson. 

The company returned to America with exactly the 
same officers, and with five exceptions, the same men 
who sailed for France ten months before. The 
changes in personnel were as follows: 

Corporal Hardin, transferred to the 103rd 
M. O. R. S. 

Corporal Coy Singleton, transfered to a hosp:tal at 
Le Mans. 

Private Sawyers, transfered to a depot company. 

Private Benjamin Stern and Private John Porter 
were assigned to this company at Is-sur-Tille. 

On April 2nd, 1919. the 105 M. O. R. S. went 
out of existence, all the officers and men being dis- 
charged. 



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Officers of the 1 05th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop 



(Editor's Note— The editor vegrels iSat Capl. Holmes and 
Lieul. Enberg. of the 105l}i M, O. R. S., d'.d not furnish indi- 
,idual photographs of ihem.elves Their pictures appear in the 
group of officers on page 114 of this hisory.) 

Captain Donald Edward Holmes. Married Miss Edith 
McCormick. Attended East High School, Des Moines. Iowa 
Iowa State College, Mechanical Engineering. Commissioned 
1st Lt., in Ordnance Reserve Corps, November 9, 1917. At- 
tended Ordnance Motor Schools, at Rock Island, 111., Peoria, 
111., Kenosha, Wis., and ClintonviUe, Wis. Assigned as C. O., 
105th Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, assuming command April 
15, 1918. Promoted Captain, February 23, 1919. Served 
throughout the war with 105th M. O. R. S., attached to 55lh 
F. A. Brigade. Returned to U. S. and mustered out of service 
with organization. Address. 10-12 Garfield Place, Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. 



Lieutenant Francis Oscar Enberg. Married Miss Pearl 
Roper. Children, Frances, daughter, and Leonard, son. At- 
tended Worcester English High School, 1897, and Becker's 
College, 1898. Enlisted 7th U. S. Inf., June 7, 1898, Served 
Spanish- American War. Discharged, February 21, 1899. Re- 
enlisted, same regiment, March 7. 1899. Discharged, March 
6, 1902. Entered 1st Trainint; Camp, 7lh Provisional Training 
Regiment, May 13, 1917. Graduated and commissioned 2d 
Ll. Ordnance, N, A., August 15, 1917. On duty with Ord- 
nance Department at Camp Sevier, S. C. Transferred to 105lh 
Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, November 14, 1917. Graduate 
Artillery Repair School, Is-sur-tille, France. Instructor at same 
school. Instructor of Machine Gun Schools at Camp Sevier. 
In charge of Artillery Repairs, 55th F. A. Brigade. Com- 
manded Company, November 14, 1917, to April 15, 1918. 
Address, 159 Mills St., Atlanta Ga. 




LIEUTENANT GEORGE A. TAYLOR. Bom Lawrence, Mass. 
Married Miss Marie Louise Boatwright, Shady Branch Plantation, Monetta, 
S. C. Attended Public Schools, Lawrence, Mass. Graduated Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, B.S., Mechanical Engineer. Machine Gun In- 
structor, civilian, at Camp Sevier, S. C, with 30th Div., August, 1917, to 
January, 1918, when commissioned 2d Lt., and assigned as Machine Gun 
Instructor in Divisional School, serving as such until April, 1918, when 
assigned as Machine Gun Repair Officer, 105th Mobile Ordnance Repair 
Shop. Served with this organization thioughout the European War. and 
until mustered out of service, April, 1919. Served in France from June, 
1918, to March, 1919. Brother, Ralph Warren Taylor, served in Naval 
Reserve, as draftsman at U. S. Navy Yard, Washington, D. C, from April, 
1918, to February, 1919. Home address, 118 Caldwell St., Rock Hill, S. C. 




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HISTORY OF THE 
1 1 5th field artillery 



The I 15th Field Artillery 
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'On the Way" 



The 1 1 5th Field Artillery 



A history of the 1 I 5th Field Artillery necessarily 
means a history of the First Tennessee Infantry, as the 
regiment was infantry much longer than it was artil- 
lery, and, in its former role, served in many wars, 
while in its latter one it only served in the great Euro- 
pean War. 

First Tennessee Infantry 

Perhaps the best brief account of this famous regi- 
ment is that prepared by Richard H. Wyatt and 
published in the Nashville Banner of March 30, 
1919, the "Homecoming" edition of that paper to 
celebrate the return of Tennessee's soldiers from the 
war. The article, in part, is as follows: 

When historians record the wonderful achievements made 
by the United Stales in this world conflict they will find i' 
necessary to reserve many pages for the Old Volunteer State. 
One of the brinhtesl of these bright pages will be reserved 
especially for the history of the I I 5th Field Artillery, which is 
better known to Tennesseans es the Bloody First Tennessee 
Regiment. To the boys of this regiment the joy of home- 
coming will be no novelty. Once before the shouts of the 
populace rang in their ears as they returned from active service. 
They were veterans before the compulsory military service law 
was born. They were trained soldiers before the 114lh Field 
Artillery was organized. They are as familiar with the cactus 
on the Mexican border as some of the newer soldiers are with 
the cooties of France. But the boys of the I 15th know them 
both. They are as familiar with the sandstorms of windswept 
Texas as the national army is with the mud in Flanders Fields, 
and yet the boys of the 115th have seen and hiked throunh 
both. This is a regiment equally adept in the handling of the 
Enfield and (he six-inch howitzer. Their early training was 
in the infantry, and hundreds of them proudly wear upon their 
breast sharpshooters' medals won on the border; but when it 



was conclusively proven that with artillery the greatest damage 
could be infliced upon the enemy with the least loss of men, 
Col. Harry S. Berry, in command of the regiment, immediately 
chose the artillery service, and in due time the old Bloody 
First became a brand-new reniment. known as the I 1 5th Field 
Artillery Regiment. 

The old First Tennessee Reniment was recruited up to 
war strength in 1916. all of them being volunteers. This 
was before the word "slacker" was hardly known or used on 
the western continent. All that was needed to stir the patriot- 
ism of these volunteers were the headlines, "Villa Bandits 
Spill American Blood on Texas Border." Steadily they 
began to enlist. From every section of the State, sons of fathers 
who for four years had carried a musket for ihe "Lost Cause," 
grandsons of those who had fought with Jackson at New Or- 
leans and descendants of the riflemen who won immortal fame 
at the battle of King's Mountain — they came — from every 
section of the State. From mountain and valley they came; 
some of them tramped for miles, but they came, and they 
enlisted. 

TTiere is no more historic military organization in the South 
than the Old First Tennessee Regiment, an organization that 
sprang into existence almost overnight when on May 24, 1846, 
Governor Aaron Vail Brown called for three regiments to be 
used in the war against Mexico. At this time a regiment was 
composed of about 1.000 men, and instead of 3.000 men re- 
sponding, as Governor Brown called for. 30,000 men re- 
sponded, and Tennessee won the name, which she has since 
retained in later wars, as the Volunteer State. Men from every 
rank of life dropped their work, shouldered their muskets and 
marched away to fight the Mexicans. The First Tennessee 
Regiment was organized in Nashville on June 3, 1846, or about 
ten days after the Governor's call. William B. Campbell, of 
Smith County, was chosen Colonel of the regiment. Colonel 
Campbell was the father of Lemuel R. Campbell and Mrs. 
James S. Pilcher, of Nashville. S. R. Anderson, of Sumner 
County, was chosen Lieutenant-Colonel, and Alexander 




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The First Tennessee Infantry 

(1) Officers of the Machine Gun Company. (2) On ihe hike to Col. Berry's farm. (3) Selling up exercises. (4) Riding high. (5) Making 
lired feel glad. (6) Capl. W. N. Hughes. Jr., mustering in the first separate battalion. (7) Resting by the wayside. (8) The mustering in of 
the Memphis companies July, I9I6. 



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and Forquharson were chosen Majors. In the action 

at Monterey the First Tennessee Regiment covered itself with 
glory, winning the name of "The Bloody First." 

After the Mexican War Colonel Campbell was elected Gov- 
ernor of the State, winning over General William Trousdale, 
another hero of the war. Governor Campbell served only one 
term, and conlmued until his death a distinguished citizen of 
Tennessee. 

In the Civil War there were two First Tennessee Regiments; 
one of them was known as Peter Turney's First. This regi- 
ment was formed from recruits from Franklin. Lincoln, Coffee 
and Grundy counties. This regiment left to join the Army 
of \''irginia on May 1, 1851, before Tennessee had formally 
seceded from the Union. In the early days it was the bri- 
gade of Robert Halton. former commander of the Seventh 
Tennessee, who was killed at the battle of Seven Pines. The 
brigade was later commanded by General Archer. This bri- 
gade had a leading part in opening the battle of Gettysburg, 
where General Archer was captured. The First Tennessee, 
as well as the brigade, was in Pickett's famous charge on 
July 3, 1863. During the terrible slaughter the First Tennessee 
had three color-bearers shot down in the charges, the last of 
them falling on the Federal works on Cemetery Ridge. The 
flag was captured only after the color-bearer had been killed. 
The other regiments of the brigade suffered equally as heavily. 
The Tennesseans won great distinction for iheir valor on this 
bloody field. This regiment served throughout the war with 
the Virginia Army. 

The other First Tennessee Regiment was known as Maney s 
First Tennessee and was finally known as Field's First Regi- 
ment. 

This regiment served for a while in Virginia, but later came 
back to the Army of Tennessee, with which it served with 
distinction during the rest of the war. 

Following the mustering out of the sadly crippled remnants 
of the regiments after peace had been declared, there was no 
occasion to call out the First Tennessee Regiment until 1892. 
when serious outbreaks occurred at Cripple Creek. The regi- 
ment was promptly dispatched to the scene. Col. H. L. Fox 
being in command. Strong companies from Middle Tennessee 
were included in the regiment and the rioting was quickly 
ended. 

Six years later when war was declared with Spain, Presi- 
dent McKinley called for volunteers and three regiments of 
Tennesseans responded to the call. The First was mustered 
into service with Col. W. C. Smith in command. Colonel Kel- 
ler Anderson commanded the Second Regiment, while the 
Third Regiment was commanded by Colonel J. P. Fyffe, of 
Chattanooga. The First Regiment was ordered to the Pacific 
Coast and entrained at Nashville on June 10, 1898. Shortly 
afterward the regiment embarked for the Philippine Islands, 
and on February 4, 1899, the big battle with the insurrecto 
Filipinos was begun. During the progress of this battle Colonel 
Smith died of apoplexy, and he was succeeded by Lieutenant- 
Colonel Gracey Childers, of Clarksville, who continued in 
command of the regiment until the close of the war. 

In September, 1 899. while the regiment was on transport 
ready to sail for home, they were notified of a fight in prog- 



ress five miles west of Cebu. The regiment promptly left the 
transport and hastened to the scene, and for this action the 
men were highly praised by President McKinley. 

During some of the fiercest fighting Clem Johnson, a ser- 
geant from one of the First Tennessee companies, waded a 
river and dashed across open ground in broad daylight and 
carried off a Fillipino battle flag, winning undying fame among 
his comrades. 

After the Spanish-American War little is heard of the 
Bloody First for several years. Many of the companies were 
maintained, known, of course, as the National Guard, but very 
little guard duty was required of them, and save for the occa- 
sional drilling and the annua! encampments the organization 
did little. 

On June 18, 1816, the First Tennessee Infantry 
was again called into active service. A war cloud 
was hovering over the Mexican border. In 1912 the 
regiment was allowed to drop below the required num- 
ber of companies and lost its regimental organization, 
the commanding officer. Col. Thomas E. Halber: 
and staff being mustered out of service and the uniio 
becoming separate battahons and companies. It re- 
mained thus until after the mobilization at Nashville 
and the muster m. 

A company of infantry was organized from men 
enhsted at Clarksville and Columbia and was mus- 
tered in with Austin Cabler, of Columbia, as Cap- 
tain and Otho Robinson, of Clarksville, as First Lieu- 
tenant. This made up the total of twelve infantry 
companies necessary, and an election was held on 
July II, 1916, for the purpose of selecting a Col- 
onel, a Lieutenant-Colonel and to fill any vacancies 
that might be caused by promotions. 

Captain W. N. Hughes, Jr., U. S. Army, Inspec- 
tor-Instructor for the National Guard of Tennessee 
and Senior Mustering Officer at the mobilization camp, 
was elected Colonel ; Major Wm. L. Terry, com- 
manding the Memphis Battalion, was elected Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, and Captain George E. Hoppe, of 
C Company, was elected Major, to succeed Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Terry. The Governor declined to is- 
sue a commission to Colonel Hughes, stating that be- 
cause he was a regular army officer he had lost his 
citizenship in Tennessee, although he was a native 
son of the State. 

The affairs of the regiment were in a very chaotic 
state until, on July 18th, another election was held 
at which Major Harry S. Berry, commanding the 
Nashville Battalion, was elected Colonel and Captain 
L. W. Hasslock was elected Major to succeed Col- 
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International Bridge Across the Rio Grande, Eagle Pass, Texas 

Note — Picture at left shows soldiers of the First Tennessee Infantry on Bridge Guard 



Immediately thereafter Lieutenants Ray C. Reeves 
and Wm. L. Granbeny were commissioned Captains 
and given command respectively of the Supply and 
Headquarters Companies. A Machine Gun Company 
was organized and Private William J. Bacon was 
commissioned Captain and given command of it. 
These companies were made up of men detailed from 
the twelve infantry companies of the regiment. Cap- 
tain Granberry was made Regimental Adjutant and 
remained as such until the return of the regiment from 
service on the Me.xican border. Captain Bacon had 
been First Lieutenant and Inspector of Small Arms 
Practice on the staff of Major Terry. When the 
units of the regiment were mustered into Federal service 
on July 3 there was no authority to muster Inspec- 
tors of Small Arms Practice, and the mustering officer 
declined to muster Lieutnant Bacon. This officer 
thereupon enlisted as a private and was assigned to 
B Company, commanded by Capt. Edward M. 
Kinney, in which capacity he served from July 1 1 th 
until July 22. when he was made a Captain and 
given command of the Machine Gun Company. 

With its organization perfected and all units func- 
tioning, the regiment got down to hard work. The 
camp was put in proper order and intensive training 
was begun. This program, with road marches, pa- 
rades and reviews, was pursued through the summer 
until on September 15, 1916, the Tennessee troops 
were entrained for the Mexican border. The First 
Tennessee Infantry was stationed at Eagle Pass, 
Texas, where it was brigaded with the First and Fifth 
Maryland, until it returned to be mustered out at 
Memphis, on March 24, 1917. 



The following report from the regimental 
commander gives a brief summary of the Mexi- 
can border service of the regiment: 

HEADQUARTERS 
FIRST TENNESSEE INFANTRY 
Nashville, Tenn., 

March 31, 1917. 
From: Commanding Officer, First Tennessee Infantry 
To: The Adjutant General of Tennessee, Nashville, 

Tenn. 
Subject: Report of the services of the First Tennessee 
Infantry, under the call of the President of June 
19, 1916. 
At the time the National Guard was called into 
Federal service, the First Tennessee Infantry did not 
exist as a regiment. Its components were called into 
service as separate battalions and three separate 
companies. The twelfth company was subsequently 
organized and mustered in and the regimental organi- 
zation was completed July 22, 1916. Subsequent to 
this date the Machine Gun Company, Headquarters 
Company and Supply Companies were organized by 
transferring men from the line companies. 

The unavoidable delay in the organization of the 
regiment was a serious handicap in itself and this was 
further accentuated by the factious feeling engendered 
by the contest for the election of a Colonel. This 
election, in itself, is the strongest argument against the 
elective system in the selection of officers, and there 
were several instances in the history of the regiment 
where the election of officers destroyed discipline and 
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The regiment was very fortunate in having in its 
line more than one hundred men who had been dis- 
charged from the army, navy or marme corps. These 
men were of great assistance as non-commissioned of- 
ficers in the training of recruits. 

On account of the fact that the requirements of the 
physical examination had not been rigidly enforced 
prior to muster in, the regiment lost more than 300 
men on account of physical unfitness. This was due 
to the fact that a large number of these men were 
under age and undeveloped. With a year's more 
growth and development a majority of them would 
pass the examination successfully. 

The regiment remained in the mobilization camo at 
Nashville, Tennessee, until September 16, 1916. Dur- 
ing the period we were at Nashville the facilities for 
drill were very poor and restricted, but the men ac- 
quired a good knowledge of sanitation and close order 
drill and also a good measure of discipline. 

The regiment left Nashville on September 1 6th 
and arrived at Eagle Pass, Texas, on the 20th. It 
was subjected to an intensive course of training and 
field work for about three weeks after arrival and then 
participated in the maneuvers for ten days. These 
maneuvers were conducted in a desert country, devoid 
of water and habitation. It was a severe test for the 
men, but the medical records show that our regiment 
lost, through exhaustion and other causes, fewer men 
per thousand on this march than any of the other four 
regiments that participated. 

The regiment had the benefit of the usual course 
in target practice and the marksmanship was unusually 
good. No competition or figures were kept in the 
Eagle Pass district, therefore I am unable to state 
the relative efficiency with respect to other regiments 
in our brigade. 

The regiment remained on the border until March 
1 5th, and was mustered out in Memphis on 
March 24th. 

The health and discipline of the regiment during 
its entire period of service was far above the aver- 
age, and had the regiment been called upon for any 
field service it undoubtedly would have given a good 
account cf itself. Harry S. Berry, 

Colonel First Tennessee Infantry 



CALL FOR EUROPEAN WAR 

Upon returning from service at Eagle Pass, Texas, 
on the Mexican border, the First Tennessee Infantry 
was mustered out of Federal service at Memphis, 
Tenn., on March 24, 1917, only to be called back 
into service on April !2th, nineteen days later, war 
having been declared by the United States against 
Germany on April 6th. At the time of its muster 
out, the roster of officers for the regiment was as 
follows: 

Field and Staff 

Colonel Harry S. Berry, Nashville. 

Lieut. -Col. William L. Terry, Memphis. 

Major (1st Bn.) George E. Hoppe, Memphis. 

Major (2d Bn.) Louis W. Hasslock, Nashville. 

Major (3d Bn.) Robert A. Wells, Jackson. 

First Lieut. Edgar C. Russell, Adjutant 1st Bn., 
Memphis. 

First Lieut. Ben A. Mason, Adjutant 2d Bn., 
Nashville. 

First Lieut. John C. Fleming, Adjutant 3d Bn., 
Fayetteville. 

Headquarters Company 
Capt. William L. Cranberry, Nashville. 

Supply Company 
Capt. Ray C. Reeves, Memphis. 
Second Lieut. Harry B. Clemons, Nashville. 

Machine Gun Company 
Capt. William J. Bacon, Memphis. 
First Lieut. Richard G. Turner, Memphis. 
Second Lieut. James P. Moore, Nashville. 
Second Lieut. John D. Key, Jackson. 

Company A 
Capt. Emil C. Rawitser, Memphis. 
First Lieut. Albert Moore, Memphis. 
Second Lieut. Thomas A. Cuneo, Memphis. 

Company B 
Capt. Edward M. Kinney, Memphis. 
First Lieut. Ben H. Tyler, Memphis. 
Second Lieut. William J. Apperson, Memphis. 

Company C 
Capt. Felix T. Lanier. Memphis. 
First Lieut. Charles L. Neely, Memphis. 
Second Lieut. Fred P. Lunda, Memphis. 




On the Border 

Pictures of the First Tennessee Infantry at Eagle Pass, Texas 
(1) The Memphis Club. (2) Regimental kitchens. (3) Trucks of the Machme Gun Company. (4) One of the natiNes. (5) Supply company 
wagons (6) On the way home. (7) The "Snake Hunters." (8) Issuing supplies. (9) Major Dunnavant, Sergts. Trout. McCorm.ck and 
Buckingham with a cJay's bag of ducks. (10) Spofford, Texas. (11) Good news-"Going Home." (12) A Butte on the R.o Grande at Wmd- 
mill Ranch. 



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Company D 
Capt. Julian D. Lawhorn, Memphis. 
First Lieut. Julius H. Kaiser, Memphis. 
Second Lieut. Samuel M. Watson, Jr., Memphis. 

Company E 
Capt. James H. Noland, Nashville. 
First Lieut. Bernard W. DePerrie, Nashville. 
Second Lieut. Hugh B. Hooper, Nashville. 

Company F 

Capt. John H. Samuels, Nashville. 
First. Lieut. James A. Pigue, Nashville. 
Second Lieut. William J. Givens, Nashville. 

Company G 
Capt. John H. Milam, Nashville. 
First Lieut. Julius A. Johnson, Nashville. 
Second Lieut. Frank W. Bailey, Nashville. 

Company H 
Capt. Benton G. Shoemaker, Nashville. 
First Lieut. Curry A. McDaniel, Nashville. 
Second Lieut. Arthur C. Fitzhugh, Nashville. 

Company I 
Capt. William H. Kyle, Memphis. 
First Lieut. William P. Scobey, Memphis. 
Second Lieut. Julius A. Gunther, Memphis. 

Company K 
Capt. Glen T. May, Jackson. 
First Lieut. Hartvvell H. Temple, Jackson. 
Second Lieut. Lloyd L. Roberts, Jackson. 

Company L 
Capt. Austin W. Cabler, Columbia. 
First Lieut. Otho W. Robinson, Clarksville. 
Second Lieut. John D. Webster, Columbia. 

Company M 
Capt. Samuel P. Jones, Nashville. 
First Lieut. Shirley D. Bohannon, Livingston. 
Second Lieut. Tillman H. Smith, Livingston. 

Medical Detachment 
Maj. Buford N. Dunnavant, Memphis. 
Capt. Robert B. Underwood, Memphis. 
First Lieut. Wilson L. Williamson, Memphis. 
First Lieut. John D. Capps, Livingston. 

Dental Surgeon 
First Lieut. John D. Weldon, Paris. 



Between the muster out and the call for service in 
the European war, a reorganization of the 3d Bat- 
talion was effected. The following officers were 
transferred to the National Guard Reserve: Major 
Robert A. Wells, Captain Austin W. Cabler, Captain 
Samuel P. Jones, 1st Lieut. John C. Fleming, 2d 
Lieut. Lloyd L. Roberts. Captain James H. No- 
land resigned during this period. 

To fill the vacancies thus created the following pro- 
motions were effected: Captain John H. Milam to be 
Major; Robert M. Milam (from civil life), 1st Lieut. 
Otho W. Robinson and 2d Lieut. John D. Key to 
be Captains; 2d Lieut. Arthur C. Fitzhugh and Regi- 
mental Sergeant-Major Max C. McKay were pro- 
moted to I st Lieutenants, and I st Sergeant Hugh I. 
Mainord, of K Company, was promoted to Second 
Lieutenant. 

The regiment was mobilized by units at home sta- 
tions and was assembled at Nashville, Tenn., where 
an excellent camp had been made on the historic Belle 
Meade stock farm. After a brief course of training 
the units of the regiment were scattered over the State 
and assigned to guard railroad bridges and important 
manufacturing plants. 

During the period between the call into service and 
being drafted into Federal service on July 25, 1917, 
the regiment was still under control of the State, and 
a number of promotions were made to fill vacancies 
occurring from various causes. Major Louis W. 
Hasslock accepted a commission as Second Lieuten- 
ant in the regular army and Captain William J. Ba- 
con was promoted to Major; 1st Lieut. Ben H. Tyler 
and 1 st Lieut. Bernard W. DePerrie were promoted 
to be Captains ; a number of enlisted men were com- 
missioned, among whom were I st Sergeant Hugh E. 
Buckingham, of the Machine Gun Company; 1st Ser- 
geant Charles D. Ford, of Company D ; Battalion 
Sergeant-Major Noah Harding, and Sergeants Paul 
A. Rye and Marion R. Wenz to be Second Lieuten- 
ants. First Lieutenant Julius A. Johnson was trans- 
ferred from the line to the Medical Detachment at his 
own request, and 2d Lieuts. Hugh B. Hooper, Frank 
W. Bailey and Noah Harding were promoted to be 
First Lieutenants. Lieut. J. D. Weldon resigned as 
Dental Surgeon and William W. Martin, of Pulaski, 
was commissioned First Lieutenant and assigned to the 
regiment. 



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From reports of the Adjutant-General, the First 
Tennessee Infantry had the following strength of of- 
ficers and men when it was called into Federal service: 

Officers. Men. 

Headquarters 

Headquarters Co ' 

Supply Co 2 37 

Machine-Gun Co ^ 

Company A 3 110 

Company B 3 '0' 

Company C 3 '0^^ 

Company D 3 110 

Company E ^ 

Company F 2 128 

Company G 3 108 

Company H 3 105 

Company I ^ 

Company K 3 136 

Company L 3 146 

Company M 3 113 

Sanitary Del 5 34 

Total 53 1.589 

It is interesting to note that of this total of fifty- 
three officers who were with the regiment when it was 
called into Federal service, only four returned with 
it from overseas service and were mustered out with 
the I I 5th Field Artillery at Fort Oglethorpe, as fol- 
lows: Colonel Harry S. Berry, Lieut. -Col. William 
J. Bacon and Captains John D. Key and Charles L. 
Neely. 

From the reports of the Adjutant-General it ap- 
pears that of the Tennessee National Guard a total 
of i 52 officers and 4,884 men were called into Fed- 
eral service. Of the officers, there were three Colonels, 
three Lieutenant-Colonels, twelve Majors, forty-seven 
Captains, forty-two First Lieutenants and forty-two 
Second Lieutenants. 

On April 1 7th work on the kitchens and admin- 
istration buildings of the mobilization camp at Belle 
Meade was begun, and on the 27th the entire regi- 
ment, except the Livingston Company, had assembled 
at this camp, which was named "Andrew Jackson," 
in honor of Tennessee's most famous son. The details 
of equipping the regiment, outfitting new recruits and 
mustering in, were soon well under way, the muster- 
ing in being completed on May 2 I st, when detailed 
orders for the guarding of the railroad bridges of the 
State were issued by Colonel Berry, the units depart- 
ing the next day for their respective posts of duty. 
Only Regimental Headquarters, Headquarters and 



Supply Companies, Company L, and the Machine 
Gun Company remaining at camp, the latter two com- 
panies being assigned bridges at or near Nashville. 

On June 28th, the companies again began assem- 
bling at Belle Meade and a course of the most inten- 
sive infantry training was begun, the program lasting 
until early in September, when orders for the move- 
ment of the regiment to Camp Sevier, at Greenville, 
S. C, were received. The regiment at this time 
reached the highest degree of efficiency attained by it. 
The average age of the men was under twenty years. 
Men and officers were fit and ready for service 
overseas. 

The First Ambulance Company, commanded by 
Capt. J. L. Morgan, had been mobilized and mus- 
tered in at Nashville, and from there had gone to 
Fort Oglethorpe for training, and had been assigned 
to the Forty-second Division (Rainbow) for service 
abroad. It was the first Tennessee outfit to land in 
France. 

The First Tennessee entrained for Greenville on 
September 8th, arriving there the next day. Company 
K, commanded by Capt. John D. Key, had preceded 
the regiment to the new camp, having left Nashville 
on August 1 4th. Assignment of the command to 
camp area was made and work was immediately be- 
gun policing and improving the conditions of the com- 
pany streets and adjacent territory. The camp had 
been placed in a virgin pine forest and great was the 
labor required to put it in ship shape. 

The I I 5th Field Artillery 
On September 1 3th, in the midst of these activities, 
orders were issued to cease work and take a holiday. 
This order was so entirely unprecedented that it was 
a matter of great amazement to every man and of- 
ficer in the command. It was evident that some im- 
portant change was afoot. Rumors of the wildest 
nature began to buzz about the camp, the mildest of 
which was to the effect that the regiment had been 
designated for immediate departure for France. Late 
in the afternoon all speculations and doubts were set 
at rest. It was learned that the regiment was to be 
changed from infantry into artillery — a six-inch 
howitzer outfit. 

On the I 4th of September the official orders con- 
firming this report came out. It was the order of- 
ficially assigning the units to their duties in the 30th 
Division. Many regiments were broken up, among 



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which was the Second Tennessee, which had been or- 
ganized after the declaration of war. 

The entire First Tennessee Infantry, less the Ma- 
chine Gun Company, which was transferred to the 
Divisional Machine Gun Battalion, and became A 
Company, I 1 3th M. G. Battalion, was changed over- 
night from "Doughboys" to artillerymen, being of- 
ficially designated the 1 1 5th Field Artillery. This, 
of course, necessitated many shiftings of officers and 
men. Each two infantry companies were made into 
one battery, as follows : 

A and B Companies, from Memphis, A Battery. 

C and D Companies, from Memphis, B Battery. 

E and F Companies, from Nashville, C Battery. 

G and H Companies, from Nashville, D Battery. 

I Company, Memphis, and K Company, Jackson, 
E Battery. 

L Company, Clarlcsville and Columbia, and M 
Company, Livingston, F Battery. 

It is a physical impossibility, in the limited confines 
of this volume, to give a detailed history of the changes 
made in the official personnel. Many of the officers 
had no desire to serve in the artillery, and, at their 
own request, and with regret on the part of every 
one, were transferred to infantry and other branches 
of the service. A few officers were secured for the 
regiment from the disbanded Second Tennessee. Some 
promotions were made from the ranks and a bevy 
of training camp graduates were sent in to fill up. 
Some officers, who preferred to stay with the outfit be- 
cause of their long service with it, elected to have a 
try at the artillery game, and, after wrestling with 
the highly technical course of instruction instituted, dis- 
covered that they had made a poor choice. 

The School of Fire and the Special School for Regi- 
mental Commanders were looked upon as benzine 
boards or canning factories. At Fort Sill from twelve 
to thirty officers out of each class of one hundred were 
sent home without finishing the course, which meant 
that they had to resign, face an efficiency board or 
seek transfer to some other branch of the serv- 
ice. The mortality among the National Guard 
officers was higher, of course, than it was among 
men from the training camps, as these latter were 
generally fresh out of college and their minds 
were flexible, pliant and active, while many of 
the guard officers had been out of school for years 
and had necessarily suffered some dulling of their 
faculties. The course of study at Fort Sill was forty- 



two hours a week, or over twice that of any university 
in the country. Classes ran from 7:30 A.M. until 
5:30 P.M., and there was generally a buzzer class 
or something else at night. It was the policy of the 
school to get rid of any officer who could not master 
the intricacies and technicalities of the artillery game, 
and much of the course of study was obsolete before 
the student had finished it. At the Divisional Camps 
the deadly efficiency boards stalked abroad in the 
land seeking whom they might devour and they found 
many victims. The 55th F. A. Brigade was the only 
artillery brigade of all in service that had its three 
regimental commanders successfully complete the 
course of study, both at Fort Sam Houston and Fort 
Sill. There were other artillery brigades, however, 
that did not send their three Colonels to both schools, 
but in every brigade other than the 55th, where the 
three regimental commanders attended these schools, 
one or more of the Colonels was a casualty. 

It was an ordeal that was well calculated to de- 
stroy the morale of the official personnel of the regi- 
ment and to sow discord and dissatisfaction among 
the men. The personal element has always been a 
big factor in the National Guard, and although it has 
been anathema to the Regular Amy officers — the sin 
without forgiveness — it could not be killed. But this 
shaking up and changing about and shifting of com- 
pany and battery commanders was well calculated to 
give it a death blow. It did not, however, and the 
record the regiment made, as well as that of the other 
National Guard units, shows conclusively that the per- 
sonal element is not detrimental to discipline nor de- 
structive of morale. 

In addition to the disadvantages heretofore enu- 
merated the suspicion that the War Department was 
unfriendly to the National Guard was further accen- 
tuated by the fact that the War Department refused 
to furnish any material to National Guard Divisions, 
although National Army Divisions organized long 
after the National Guard Divisions were successful 
in getting sufficient guns for training purposes. The 
application of our brigade and division commanders 
for artillery instructors was received with a deaf ear, 
although the War Department supplied several experi- 
enced artillerymen to each National Army Division. 

And now the regiment entered upon another experi- 
ence that had every tendency to kill all the soldierly 
qualities of its men. It was moved to the extreme 
eastern portion of the camp into a forest that was more 




Making Artillery Out of Doughboys at Camp Sevier 

(1) Gun squads drilling with wooden Howitzer. (2) Thanksgiving dinner, 1917. (3) Firing 3-inch guns at Cleveland's Mill. (4) Inspection 
in Battery B's street. (5) On the range. (6) Rolling kitchen in action. (7) Learning artillery in the pine forests. (8) Improvised material. 
(9) The science of field artillery. (10) Making camp in the wildciness. (Pictures loaned by Lieut. James M. Scruggs, Jr.) 



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dense than that into which it had been dumped on 
arrival at Camp Sevier. A daily program of forestry 
was inaugurated and the winter was spent in felling 
pine trees, grubbing stumps and make-believe artillery 
training with extemporized wooden guns and imagi- 
nary horses. Practically none of the men or officers 
had ever seen a field piece, and, certainly had no 
familiarity with a six-inch howitzer. There was no 
one in the brigade, except General George G. Gatley, 
commanding, who knew as much about field artillery 
as he did about the latest election on the planet Mars. 

It was a depressing, disheartening, discouraging, de- 
moralizing and disappointing tim.e from September 
14th until well into the spring of 1918. The winter 
was unusually severe and the camp was subjected to 
epidemics of measles, mumps and the like. There 
were a good many deaths to further add to the gloom 
of a training period which had slumped into a wood- 
cutting contest. 

Immediately after the changing of the regiment into 
artillery a brigade school was begun and senior of- 
ficers from the three regiments were detailed to attend 
the School of Fire for Field Artillery at Fort Sill, 
Okla. Not only the field officers, but most of the 
Captains, attended the school, and many of the bat- 
tery commanders were still there when the brigade 
was ordered overseas and rejoined at the port of em- 
barkation. 

Regimental Commanders and Lieutenant-Colonels 
were sent for a special course of instruction at Fort 
Sam Houston. 

This school at San Antonio was officially known 
as the Brigade and Field Officers' School, but it was 
usually and appropriately referred to as Dugan's Mad- 
house, in honor of the leading spirit in the faculty 
and in recognition of the method in which the school 
was conducted. The student officers were all field 
officers of the National Guard, and the faculty were 
principally misfit officers of the Regular Army for 
whom the War Department could not find any other 
assignment. In his first address to the class the Com- 
mandant announced that the Brigade and Field Of- 
ficers' School was not a school of instruction, but a 
school of demonstration. This was accepted as an 
official announcement by the War Department that 
it intended to get rid of the senior National Guard 
officers. The instructors of the school carried out the 
purpose of the school and studiously avoided giving 
any instruction or assistance to the student officers. 



even if they had been temperamentally or profession- 
ally qualified to do so. At the end of a three months' 
course of study some thirty officers were declared de- 
ficient and deprived of their commissions. How the 
number of victims selected for the slaughter was ever 
arrived at or how their unfitness was discovered is still 
a mystery. There was scarcely a military subject 
studied at the school that was used in the present 
war. The entire course was twenty years out of date. 
However, thirty officers were arbitrarily deprived of 
their commissions, and the War Department got its 
first revenge on the National Guard. 

In January, 1918, some of the officers had com- 
pleted the course of instruction at the School of Fire 
and returned to the regiment as instructors in the regi- 
mental schools, which were now in full blast. 

During the period while Colonel Harry S. Berry 
was attending the schools at San Antonio and Fort 
Sill, Lieut. -Col. John T. Geary, C. A. C, com- 
manded the regiment. By his pleasing personality and 
fine sense of fairness and other soldierly qualities, he 
endeared himself to every one in the command. 

Captain John L. Craig and Lieut. Richard B. 
Hager were in charge of athletics and they succeeded 
in arousing a great deal of interest among the men. 
The 1 15th F. A. was easily the champion in foot- 
ball, winning all four matched games played during 
the season. 

A silver cup, offered by Vanderbilt University 
of Nashville, was won by the 115th. Vanderbilt 
University also presented each the I 15th and 1 14th 
Artillery Regiments with the sum of $250 with which 
to buy athletic equipment. 

The regimental football team was made up of the 
following men, many of whom were college stars be- 
fore they made their debut in the army : Shea, La- 
tham, Pepper, Marion, Marmon, Ransom, Mallory, 
Adams, Ward, Hicks, Hall, Howard, Jackson, 
Donelson, McGehee and Dooley. 

The four matched games referred to above were 
as follows: 

1 15th F. A 28— Chick Springs Military Academy- .0 

n5th F. A 6— 117th Infantry 

1 15th F. A 13— 114th F. A 7 

115lh F. A 21 — 105th Organizations 7 

With winter over and conditions so that outdoor 
training could be resumed, the regiment began to take 
a new lease on life. Smoke-bomb practice was inau- 
gurated, telephone and radio details were trained and 




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four three-inch field pieces were given to the regiment 
with which to drill. 

In April the regiment went on the target range at 
Cleveland's Mill, about twenty-five miles from Green- 
ville, and put into effect some of the theories it had 
absorbed through the study course of the winter. 
Using the three-inch field pieces and firing by French 
howitzer methods, the regiment did some most amaz- 
ingly accurate shooting. In a single day over twenty 
targets were destroyed, some of them being literally 
torn into bits. When the targets had all been de- 
stroyed, single trees and stumps and bits of canvas, 
torn by the artillery fire from the original targets, were 
singled out and fired upon and invariably destroyed 
unless the firing was stopped after a few rounds for 
adjustment. 

While the First Battalion was on the range orders 
for an advance school detachment to precede the regi- 
ment to France were received. At the same time Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Geary was ordered away and word 
was received that Colonel Berry was returning to his 
command. 

Advance School Detachment 

The war really first came to Camp Sevier when 
the Advanced School Detachment of the 30th Divi- 
sion, comprising 147 officers and 230 men, took its 
departure for France. This occurred on April 30th, 
a special train taking the detachment to Camp Mer- 
ritt, N. Y., where it remained for a few days and 
sailed on May 8th on the George Washington from 
Hoboken, landing on the 18th of May at Brest, 
France. The Brigade Detachment was under com- 
mand of Lieut-Col. Sidney C. Chambers, I 1 3th F. A. 

The purpose in sending the detachment ahead was 
to train officers and men to act as instructors in the 
latest thought and methods of warfare as it was de- 
veloping on the western front. 

At the time this detachment was ordered overseas 
it was thought that the division would not sail for 
some weeks, and that the Artillery Brigade might 
remain in the United States for several months or even 
longer. 

The trip was the fourth of the transport George 
Washington with troops, the passage covering ten days 
and 3, 1 59 miles. The number of passengers trans- 
ported on the ship was 5,632. In the convoy were 
the ships America and DeKalb, which, with the 
George Washington, carried a total of 1 0.442 pas- 



sengers, which included naval overseas detachments 
and civilians on duty, as well as troops. The DeKalb 
was the former German raider, "Prince Eitel Fred- 
erick." 

The ship left the docks at Hoboken at 4:30 P.M., 
on May 8th, without ceremony or noise, and with 
every soldier below decks and only such members of 
the crew in view as were necessary in the operation 
of the ship. The officer of the guard personally pa- 
trolled the officers' quarters and saw that none took 
a last farewell look at the Goddess of Liberty. 

The weather was fine and the sea smooth through- 
out, but there was some seasickness among the of- 
ficers and a great deal more among the men, the lat- 
ter being necessarily badly crowded in the berthing 
spaces below decks, where the ventilation was difficult 
and the air not of the best. 

The men were kept on deck as much as possible, 
but there were so many troops aboard that every 
available foot of deck space was occupied. The 
promenade deck was opened to certain classes of Ser- 
geants and large details of men and officers were as- 
signed to the lookouts, which were kept on duty with 
the utmost vigilance both night and day. 

Strictest discipline was maintained. No smoking 
was allowed on decks after dark, and not a ray of 
light was ever shown. The door of the room used 
as an office by the Troop Commander was connected 
with a light switch, and the door could not be opened 
without turning off all the lights in the room. All 
flashlights were taken up and turned over to the ar- 
morer and all detachment commanders were required 
to certify that they had turned in all such lights in 
their detachments. 

For the last three days of the trip every one was 
required to remain dressed at all times and to carry a 
canteen filled with water and a life preserver. 

The three ships in the convoy zigzagged their way 
across the broad Atlantic, the changes of course being 
made simultaneously. A special clock known as the 
"zigzag" clock on each ship had to agree to the 
second with a similar clock on all of the other ships 
in the convoy. The rudder of each ship was put over 
at the same instant with that of each of the other 
ships, each ship making the turn of twenty or thirty 
or forty degrees in the same interval of time or a col- 
lision would have resulted. The zigzag was begun 
at dawn and continued until darkness was established, 
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The George Washington at Brest 



One clay was spent in target practice when the 
journey was about half over. Some very pretty shoot- 
ing was done by the gun crews. There were some 
false alarms of subs, but they were rather assuring, 
as they testified to the thoroughness of the lookouts. 

Besides the Advance School Detachment of the 
30th Division, the George Washington carried on this 
particular trip the following troops: A large number 
of casuals; the 108th (33d Division, Illinois Na- 
tional Guard) Engineers, under command of Colonel 
Henry A. .Allen, of Chicago; a Camp Grant Labor 
Battalion (2,300 negroes) ; Advance Detachments 
of the 33d Division and 37th Engineers, and the Ad- 
vance School Detachments of the 78th and 27th 
Divisions. 

The George Washington was built by the Vulcan 
Works, Settin, Germany, and launched November I 0, 
1908; its first trip was begun June 12, 1909; its 
speed is 18.5 knots, eighty-three revolutions per min- 
ute ; horsepower, 20,000 ; tonnage, gross registered, 
25,570; net, 15,379 tons; displacement, 33,000 tons 
at thirty-feet draft; maximum number of persons on 
board any one trip, 7,121 ; boat and life raft accom- 
modations, 9,128; fresh water carried, 3,900 tons. 
It was co.mmanded by Captain Ed\vin T. Pollock, 
U. S. N., for this and many of its other trips. Dur- 
ing the war it transported a total of 48,772 passen- 
gers for a total of nine trips. 

The Daih Hatchet, a publication started en the 
second trip of the ship, was continued through this, 
as well as all other voyages until the armistice. This, 
the third volume, was edited by Lieutenants Granlland 
Rice, Walter Trumbull and Innis Brown, of the 



i 1 5th F. A., all newspaper men from New York 
City. Lieut. Edward Streeter, 105th F. A., who 
has contributed much to the amusement of the nation 
with his "Letters to Mabel," was a member of the 
27th Division School Detachment, and was an asso- 
ciate editor of the paper. 

Ten issues of the Hatchet were published and they 
helped very materially in keeping up the morale of the 
men and officers. The paper came out generally just 
at noon and there was always a wild scramble for 
copies. All of the copies of the Hatchet, with rosters 
of officers and much other valuable information and 
illustrations, have been compiled in a volume which 
may be secured from the Navy Relief Society, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

On the last morning of the journey an enemy sub 
bobbed up just at daylight between the George Wash- 
ington and the America, but so close were the two 
transports that the sub could not fire its torpsdoes with- 
out danger of destroying itself. Nor could the naval 
gun crews en the transport fire on the sub, although it 
was in plain view and visible sufficiently long to have 
been destroyed. 

The sirens, the agreed alarm signal for subs, were 
sounded and all persons on the transports reported to 
their station for abandon ship. There was not the 
least confusion and apparently no concern or uneasi- 
ness. Abandon ship drill had been held daily in 
coming across, and this morning, m the false and mys- 
terious gloom just before dawn, the troops and crew 
assembled quite as calmly as they did at drill. But 
there was no returning to bunks for the finish of the 
interrupted early morning snooze. All hands re- 




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mained on deck and little interest was manifested in 
breakfast, for the word had been passed around that 
land would be sighted soon after daylight. 

The seven little destroyers which had joined us the 
morning before, and which had circled and played 
about the convoy like a lot of pointer dogs in a sage 
field, executed all sorts of fancy maneuvers, calcu- 
lated to trap the submarine. But the underseas boat 
didn't show again, nor did it fire, and we went on 
our way in safety and soon sighted the captive balloon 
which patrolled the harbor of Brest, and, a little 
later, at eight o'clock A.M., we sighted the shores of 
France. 

The ship anchored in the harbor about noon, but 
none were allowed ashore that afternoon or evening. 
Major-General O'Ryan, commanding the 27th Divi- 
sion, came aboard and had dinner with the New 
^'ork Advance School Detachment. There were 
band concerts and movie pictures on board and much 
of the restraint was removed. Ports and windows 
were allowed to be opened after dark and smoking 
allowed on deck. All about the ship there was a 
noticeable relieving of the strain under which all had 
labored for the last three days, to say the least, since 
the good ship had come into the submarine zone. 

Safe arrival letters were written and final prepara- 
tions made for disembarking the following day. A 
number of censors had been named from the officers 
aboard and they had carefully read all the censor- 
ship rules and regulations and possessed a high idea 
of the importance of their duties. Consequently most 
of the safe arrival letters looked like crazy quilts after 
these amateur censors had cut out such dangerous in- 
formation as they contained. One letter, however, 
was allowed to pass as written. It was from an en- 
listed man to his best girl back home. In it he de- 
scribed the landing of himself in France. The mere 
fact that it was finished twenty-four hours before the 
landing didn't bother the writer. He possessed a 
vivid and elastic imagination. In this letter he told 
how the troops landed from the big ship, directly 
upon the dock and how the American band was 
drawn up on one side of the quay and the French 
band on the other, and how the mayor and military 
governor of the French town, name omitted, welcomed 
the "Saviors of la Belle France" with perfervid ora- 
tory, and how hundreds of pretty girls in quaint cos- 
tumes, waving American and French flags, formed 



a lane through which the stalwart American soldiers 
marched, the girls showering them with flowers and 
kisses. He furthe.- told of the beautiful decorations 
of the buildings and of the streets and the great tri- 
umphal arch across the main thoroughfare, under 
which the conquering heroes marched, to the echoing 
shoutings of the massed multitudes. It was some land- 
ing. He must have spent all of his spare time on the 
trip across thinking it up and writing it and polish- 
ing and improving it and filling in new and lurid 
details as his imagination worked. The censors let 
it pass and some girl back home was made to thrill 
with pride and joy at the great reception given her 
hero. It is a good thing that the censor let it go be- 
fore he landed, as the reception didn't quite measure 
up to the writer's imagination. 

The boat was anchored out in the harbor and the 
men were carried ashore on lighters and landed at 
a deserted wharf. The only reception committee was 
a railroad transportation officer and the French dock 
laborers who caught the lines thrown ashore to them 
and made them fast. The march through the city 
of Brest was about as exciting as the funeral of an 
unknown tramp in the potter's field. The only deco- 
rations were on the cafes and stores and appeared 
thus: "American Bar," "English Spoken," "Ameri- 
can Souvenirs." As the troops marched through the 
streets they were met by a large delegation of chil- 
dren, who greeted them vociferously with "Good- 
bye," "Un Pennie," "Cigarette," etc. 

There was no halt in Brest, but the men were 
marched directly to Pontanazen barracks and in- 
terned. It took as much red tape and trouble to get 
a pass to go to the city as it does to get a life termer 
pardoned. The camp was not a bad one, but the 
facilities were of the poorest. The men and officers 
were in tents and there were no messing arrangements. 
Equipment and rations had to be drawn and each 
detachment had to organize its own mess. No cooks 
had been brought along, of course, as the order had 
called for specialists only. Most of the men were 
non-commissioned officers and were supposed long ago 
to have progressed past the necessity of kitchen police 
and cooking. But in the detachment of the I 1 5th 
Field Artillery there was the right sort of spirit and 
rank was waved before general hunger. Sergeants 
and Corporals acted as cooks and kitchen police, and 
officers stood in line with their mess outfits and washed 



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them in a common pot with negro labor troops, who 
occupied the barracks. There was a mess for field 
officers only, a rather good mess and reasonable in 
price. The only way an officer of lower rank could 
get into it was to accompany some field officer and 
pass as an Adjutant. 

The detachments were taken out for road marches 
almost daily, and on the 23d the detachments of the 
27th, 30th and 78th Divisions, under command of 
Col. Edwin O. Sarratt, 309th F. A., entrained for 
Camp Du Valdahon on a special train. It was on 
this journey that the officers made their first acquain- 
tance with the first class and the men with the second 
and third class French coaches. It was a sad change 
from American sleepers or even day coaches. At 
Dijohn the detachments from the infantry and ma- 
chine gun units were sent on to Langres, where schools 
of the line for these branches of the service were in 
operation, and the artillery detachments continued on 
to Camp Du Valdahon, in the Department of Doubs, 
a few kilometers from the Swiss border, arriving there 
in the afternoon of the 25th. 

The stay at Valdahon was thoroughly enjoyable. 
The weather was cool and the country beautiful. The 
school was operated on the most friendly and reason- 
able basis of any that had thus far been encountered 
in the American Army. The instructors seemed to 
think that the student officers and enlisted men had 
been sent to the school to learn something about artil- 
lery instead of coming there to be taught what hope- 
less ignoramuses they were. Consequently both men 
and officers entered upon the course of study with 
enthusiasm and the weeks went by most pleasantly 
and profitably. 

Every officer and man m the three detachments 
has a warm spot in his heart for Valdahon and a 
kind word for Colonel Wheeler, the School Command- 
ant, and all of the instructors and administrative per- 
sonnel. 

On Saturday afternoons the school supplied trucks 
and all who wished were allowed to go to Besancon, 
the quaint old city founded by Julius Caesar, and 
known throughout the world as the birthplace of Vic- 
tor Hugo. Absence was permitted from Saturday 
noon until Sunday night, and many officers availed 
themselves of the opportunity to spend the week-end 
in the interesting old city. 



Arrangements were under way for all of the field 
officers in the school detachments to visit the front — 
the American Sector north of Toul — but these plans 
were changed when it was learned that the artillery 
brigades of the three divisions had sailed early in 
June, and that orders would be issued for the detach- 
ments to rejoin their regiments as soon as they had 
landed in France. 

The country about Valdahon is beautiful. It is, 
for all the world, like a well-kept city park, or like 
the grounds of the handsome homes along the Hud- 
son River. The terrain is rolling, well watered, and 
most carefully cultivated, e.xcept where it is in mead- 
ows, which rival the finest golf courses for neatness 
and general good appearance. 

Most of those who were in the artillery detach- 
ments will look back upon their sojourn at Valdahon 
as their most pleasant experience in France, not only 
because of the exceedingly courteous treatment ac- 
corded them at the school, but because of the rare 
beauty of the country and the quaint charm and rest- 
fulness of the city of Besancon. Very few Ameri- 
can troops had been there, the military police and 
other pests, necessary perhaps, but none the less an- 
noying, had not then taken over the town and there 
were practically no restrictions. There was an ex- 
cellent French mess at the school, a bit monotonous 
because of the eternal soups and veal, but far above 
the average, and the quarters were entirely comfort- 
able. There were wonderful restaurants and truly 
French hotels in Besancon. The profiteers had not 
yet invaded the department of Doubs, and the French 
inhabitants were the most kindly, cleanly and friendly 
that were encountered anywhere in France. Then, 
too, for many of us, it was our first acquaintance with 
France. It was like heaven compared to the bare 
camp and prison-like treatment accorded at Brest. 
There were fine roads in every direction and bicycles 
could be rented and Sunday excursions made to the 
villages and places of interest. 

Except for the training and the guns and the firing 
on the range there was nothing to suggest the war. 
The front was some twenty miles or more distant, 
and the sector had always been quiet. The only two 
exciting incidents of the stay were the burning at night 
of the building containing the gasoline supply of the 
post and a German plane passing over one day at a 
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invisible to the naked eye. With the telescopes and 
field glasses the black cross could be made out. 

On the 20th of June the detachments of the 30th 
and 78th Divisions entrained, the first for Guer and 
Camp Coetquidan and the latter for Meucon, a camp 
near St. Nazaire. The trip across France was al- 
most like a Cook's tour, as our coaches were attached 
to the regular trains and stop-overs were necessary at 
Besancon, Dole. Tours and Nevers. The journey 
consumed four days, the last night being spent at 
Redon, where most of the officers and many of the 
men found comfortable quarters in the hotels of the 
little town. 

On June 24th the detachment of the 55th F. A. 
Brigade arrived at Guer and immediately marched to 
the camp at Coetquidan, a two brigade artillery camp 
and school of instruction, where they joined their re- 
spective regiments. The baggage of the entire de- 
tachment, a full carload, did not arrive for nearly two 
weeks, and all of the officers were much inconven- 
ienced, as everything they possessed in France was 
in that car, except what each had carried in his hand 
baggage and on his person. After all hope of finding 
it had been abandoned, the car arrived, to the great 
gratification of all concerned . 

While at Valdahon orders had been received pro- 
moting 1st Lieuts. W. T. Stewart and Innis Brown 
to the grade of Captain, and 2d Lieut. Charles T. 
McMurry to 1 st Lieutenant, and on arrival at Coet- 
quidan orders were there found waiting promoting 
Major William J. Bacon to the grade of Lieutenant- 
Colonel, and Capts. Robert M. Milam and W. H. 
Beckner to the grade of Major. 

The .Advance School Detachments of the 55th 
Field Artillery Brigade, by regiments, was as follows: 



i 15th Field Artillery 
Detachment Commander 
Major Wm. J. Bacon 

FIRING 
Capt. Robert M. Milam. 
Capt. William H. Beckner. 
Capt. William J. Apperson. 
1st Lieut. Hugh E. Buckingham. 
1 St Lieut. Allen L. Campbell. 
1st Lieut. Grantland Rice. 
1st Lieut. Walter S. Trumbull. 

RECONNAISSANCE AND ORIENTATION 
1st Lieut. Jules B. Rozier, Jr. 
1st Lieut. Samuel G. Anspach, Jr. 
1st Lieut. Willis T. Stewart. 
1st Lieut. Innis Brown. (Attached to I 1 5th F. A.) 

AERIAL OBSER\ATION 
1st Lieut. Frank W. Bailey. 
1 St Lieut. Maurice A. Thome. 
2d Lieut. Roland D. Hall. 

WIRELESS 
2d Lieut. Herbert B. Hudnut. 
2d Lieut. Harold E. Morrison. 

TELEPHONE 
2d Lieut. Charles T. McMurry. 
2d Lieut. Harry M. Woodward. 

MATERIAL 
Sergeant William Jackson, Battery F. 
Sergeant Linwood C. Lovell, Battery D. 
Sergeant John R. Thurman, Jr., Battery A. 
Corporal Augustus K. Alexander, Battery D. 
Corporal Harlan B. Huffine, Battery C. 
Corporal James M. Scruggs, Jr., Hdqrs. Co. 
Chief Mechanic John M. Glancy, Battery A. 




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Mechanic Merbeit N. Acred, Battery B. 
Wagoner Edgar F. Rollins, Battery B. 
Private Lloyd L. Hallan, Battery B. 

RADIO 
Sergeant Robert E. Williamson, Hq. Co. 
Corporal Walter A. Greenlief, Hq. Co. 
Corporal Lee F. Ware, Hq. Co. 
Private, ist Class, Warner L. Carden, Hq. Co. 
Private, Ist Class, Mayger L. Gardner, Hq. Co. 
Private, Ist Class, Frank Haley, Battery C. 
Private William H. Helm, Hq. Co. 

TELEPHONE 
Sergeant Geo. S. Hobbs, Battery C. 
Sergeant James A. Hodges, Hq. Co. 
Sergeant Crenshaw Howell, Battery D. 
Sergeant Richard L. Sorsby, Battery .A. 
Corporal Samuel A. Pepper, Jr., Battery E. 
Corporal Jay H. Pickett, Battery C. 
OBSERVATION AND LIAISON 
Sergeant George M. Blackburn, Battery C. 
Sergeant Winborn Simmons, Battery A. 
Sergeant George R. Riebeth, Battery B. 
Sergeant Douglass N. Shepherd, Battery E. 
Corporal Roy H. Kreis, Battery F. 
Private Joseph W. Simonton, Jr., Battery B. 

I I 3th Field Artillery 

Detachrtient Commander 

LiEUT.-CoL. Sidney C. Chambers 

WIRELESS 
I St Lieut. Horace C. Bennett. 
I St Lieut. Christian E. Mears. 

FIRING 
Capt. Wiley C. Rodman. 
CapL Robert M. Hanes. 
I st Lieut. Wade V. Bowman. 
I st Lieut. Richard D. Dixon. 
I st Lieut. Beverly S. Royster, Jr. 
I st Lieut. Enoch S. Simmons. 
2d Lieut. James P. Dcdge. 

RECONNAISSANCE AND ORIENTATION 
Capt. Lennox P. McLendon. 
1st Lieut. William B. Guion. 
I st Lieut. John W. Moore. 
2d Lieut. Lemuel R. Johnston. 

AERIAL OBSERVATION 
1st Lieut. William E. Baugham. 
Ist Lieut. Samuel M. Gattis. Jr. 



2d Lieut. Zack D. Harden. 
2d Lieut. Caleb K. Burgess. 

MATERIAL 
Sergeant Edward E. Bell, Battery A. 
Sergeant John G. Hudgins, Battery A. 
Sergeant Frank W. McKeel, Battery B. 
Sergeant James K. Proctor, Battery B. 
Sergeant Charles B. Wills, Battery C. 
Sergeant Nero T. Bobbitt, Battery D. 
Sergeant Percy H. Wilson, Battery D. 
Sergeant Walter R. Minish, Battery E. 
Sergeant McLin S. Choate, Battery F. 
Sergeant Charles F. Rich, Battery F. 

WIRELESS 
Sergeant Newton S. Gulley, Battery B. 
Sergeant Lawrence F. Dixon, Battery C. 
Sergeant Archie B. Fairley, Battery D. 
Corporal Rufus A. Annas, Battery E. 
Corporal Charles G. Sellers, Battery F. 
Sergeant Ralph L. Henderson, Hdqrs. Co. 

TELEPHONE 
Sergeant Luther White, Battery A. 
Corporal William L. Hassell, Battery B. 
Corporal Lester V. Smith, Battery C. 
Corporal Fred E. Williams, Battery D. 
Sergeant Ronald A. Craven, Battery E. 
Private, 1st Class, Clarence C. Hope, Battery F. 
Sergeant Fred M. Patterson. Hdqrs. Co. 

OBSER\-ATION AND LIAISON 
Corporal Jacob H. Ziegler, Battery A. 
Coi-poral Marshall E. Bagwell, Battery B. 
Private, Ist Class, Charles L. Andrews, Battery C. 
Private Julian D. Kirby, Battery D. 
Private Dedrick S. Barber, Battery E. 
Corporal William E. Cornelius, Battery F. 
Sergeant Earl Johnson, Hdqrs. Co. 

I I 4th Field Artillery 
Detachment Commander 
Major Roy V. Myers 

WIRELESS 
1st Lieut. Frank B. Evers, Hq. Co. 
2d Lieut. Clark N. Bass, Hq. Co. 

AERIAL OBSERVATION 
2d Lieut. Daniel O. Smith, Hq. Co. 
2d Lieut. Thomas D. Maher, Hq. Co. 
I st Lieut. John L. Lewis, Battery F. 



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RECONNAISSANCE 
Capt. Edward J. McCormack. 
2d Lieut. Robert H. Bell, Battery D. 
2d Lieut. Clyde H. Hunter, Battery D. 
2d Lieut. Horace T. Polk, Battery B. 

FIRING 
Capt. Reese T. Amis, Battery C. 
I St Lieut. Robert G. Fields, Battery E. 
ist Lieut. William Y. Elliott, Battery D. 
1st Lieut. Guy E. Joyner, Battery F. 
Ist Lieut. Jesse M. Mitchell, Battery A. 
1st Lieut. John K. Gunby, Battery F. 

MATERIAL 
Mechanic Prentice E. Arnold, Battery A. 
Sergeant W. H. Clasgens, Battery A. 
Mechanic General M. Leroy, Battery B. 
Sergeant Wm. H. Gardner, Battery B. 
Mechanic Servias L. Ewrard, Battery C. 
Chief Mechanic Stanley R. Yenowine, Battery E. 
Sergeant R. H. Rupe, Battery F. 
Sergeant Jonah G. Durham, Battery F. 
Sergeant Robert N. Church, Battery E. 
Chief Mechanic Donovan Stuart, Battery D. 

WIRELESS 
Private Mack A. Bryant, Battery B. 
Private Gilford O. Bicknell, Battery C. 
Corporal Nelson Chambers, Battery A. 
Corporal Luther Ezzell, Battery E. 
Corporal Charles F. Smith, Battery F. 
Corporal Newman W. Oliver, Battery D. 
Sergeant James C. Harris, Hq. Co. 

TELEPHONE 
Private Emory E. Upton, Battery A. 
Corporal Robert B. Hilburn, Battery B. 
Corporal Mentor W. Carson, Battery C. 
Corporal C. W. Bradley, Battery E. 
Corporal Murphy Booker, Battery F. 
Corporal Robert A. Tharp, Battery D. 
Sergeant Lee Rogers, Hq. Co. 

LIAISON 
Sergeant Mathews W. Hardin, Hq. Co. 
Sergeant Ned McCloud, Battery F. 
Sergeant Paul C. Klyce, Battery E. 
Corporal Wilgar P. Coleman, Battery D. 
Sergeant Fentress Mangum, Battery A. 
Corporal Claud E. Haswell, Battery B. 
Corporal Raymond M. Bunch, Battery C. 



The Regiment Sails for France 

On May 19, 1918, the regiment entrained for 
Camp Mills, L. I., and sailed on June 4th, on H. M. 
S. Mauretania, arriving June 1 I th at Liverpool, Eng- 
land. Two days were spent at a rest camp at Rom- 
sey, England, and, on the 1 3th of June, the com- 
mand crossed the English Channel and landed at Le 
Havre, France, entraining here for Guer, where it 
arrived on June 16th. 

Lieut. -Col. Wm. L. Terry and Major Geo. E. 
Hoppe, at their own request, had been transferred 
to the training camp at Spartanburg, S. C. (Camp 
Wadsworth), and did not cross with the regiment. 

At Camp de Coetquidan, a few kilometers from 
the town of Guer, in the Department of Morbihan, 
a part of the old kingdom of Brittany, the regiment 
trained from June 16 to August 25, 1918, when, 
its tranimg finished, and equipped for Held service, it 
entrained for the front and went directly into the 
firing line and soon into the first great American drive 
of the war. 

Shortly after the arrival of the regiment at Coetqui- 
dan Ist Lieut. Jean Raoul Lamothe, of the 313th 
French Artillery, and two interpreters were assigned 
to the regiment. Lieutenant Lamothe remained with 
the 1 15th throughout its service at the front and was 
only relieved while the brigade was on its way into 
Germany. He served as liaison officer and was of 
inestimable value to the regiment. He was an expert 
and experienced artilleryman, and a gentleman of the 
highest qualities. For gallantry in action he had been 
awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Govern- 
ment and a similar decoration by the Italian Govern- 
ment, he having served in Italy as well as on the 
western front. 

The regiment had originally been designated as horse 
drawn and its equipment was to be six-inch American 
howitzers. But neither horses nor howitzers were 
supplied, and before sailing it had received entirely a 
simulated and theoretical training except for some lit- 
tle drill on the three-inch field piece and a two-weeks' 
course of firing at Cleveland's Mill. 

Later orders had been issued changing it to motor 
drawn. When notified that the regiment would be motor 
drawn all farriers, blacksmiths, saddlers, etc., were 
transferred out of the regiment, and this increased our 
difficulties when we were finally supplied with horses. 
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back to horse drawn and was officially designated to 
be armed with the French 155 millimeter Schneider 
howitzer. But neither guns nor horses were available 
for Its equipment, and it began its training course with 
guns borrowed from other regiments that had com- 
pleted their training and were waiting orders to move 
to the front. 

The school was an excellent one and the instructors 
were competent and kindly and helpful and the train- 
ing was soon in full swing. The record the brigade 
made here has been stated to be the best that was 
made by any artillery brigade that trained in France. 
The regiment's record was quite as good as that of 
the brigade. In the six weeks of the course at Coet- 
quidan the regiment developed into a perfect fight- 
ing machine, but not until August 8th did it receive 
the last of its twenty-four guns. In the meantime it 
had been supplied with 1 ,200 horses, mostly French 
bred, and many of them excellent ones. Major R. 



M. Milam, with a detachment of officers and men, 
had been sent to the country about Rouen for the 
purpose of buying horses for the regiment. The regi- 
ment received its first horses July I 0th, and the horse 
details were not called in until August 1 1 th. 

In the all too brief time between July 10th and 
August 25th, the regiment had to learn the difficulties 
of driving, equitation and stable management. When 
the orders were received back at Camp Sevier desig- 
nating the regiment as motorized, many of the men 
who were familiar with horses were transferred to the 
1 1 3th and I 1 4th Regiments in exchange for men 
with mechanical training, especially motor mechanics. 
Now that the regiment was returned to a horse-drawn 
status, the command found itself with very few men 
who knew whether a horse ate gasoline, rolled oats 
or sawdust or whether they were equipped with self- 
starters or had to be cranked. It was soon demon- 
strated that a wizard on internal combustion engines 



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didn't know much about straw-burners of one-horse 
power. A great many of the horses were staUions, 
many of them vicious brutes of gigantic size and fierce 
appearance. But, fortunately, there were some officers 
and men who had been raised in the country and 
they took to the horses as naturally as a duck does 
to water. In a few weeks the regiment was function- 
ing like a veteran outfit and only the critical would 
have discovered that most of its men had been forced 
to cross the Atlantic to be personally introduced to 
a horse. If wound stripes had been given for those 
inflicted by the horses the government's supply of gold 
braid would have been severely depleted and many 
of the men of the I 15th F. A. would have looked 
like zebras. 

Gen. George G. Gatley, who had commanded 
the brigade since its organization at Camp Sevier, was 
transferred to the command of the 67th Artillery 
Brigade, of the Rainbow (42d Division). It was a 
matter of keen regret to every one that he was taken 
away. He had proven himself an excellent com- 
manding officer, and had taken such a keen and per- 
sonal interest in the brigade that he had secured the 
confidence, respect and loyalty of every unit. It was 
a pleasure to serve under a practical soldier, a real 
artilleryman and the brigade was to learn the true 
seriousness of its loss to its bitter sorrow before it 
should be disbanded and return to civil life where 
the men and officers might freely express their opin- 
ions without fear of courts-martial or shipment to the 
S. O. S. for reclassification. 

On July 4th General D'Amade, of the French 
Army, commanding the district of Rennes, with his 
Staff and other distinguished French officers and states- 



men, were the guests of the officers of the brigade 
at Coetquidan. A review of the brigade was held 
and appropriate ceremonies were had, closing with a 
banquet for the guests at the French Officers' Club. 
This was also in the nature of a farewell to General 
Gatley, who took his departure on the 6th of July. 
Every officer of the brigade called upon him at his 
quarters and sincerely expressed persona! regret that 
he was leaving. The gloom over his loss would have 
been deepened had the officers fully realized just what 
was in store for the brigade. General Shipton, a 
Major in the Coast Artillery Corps, with the temporary 
rank of Brigadier-General, was assigned to the bri- 
gade. He had previously held two commands in 
the A. E. F., from both of which he had been trans- 
ferred. In the early part of the Argonne Offensive 
this officer was relieved of command and sent back 
to the S. O. S., where he was reduced to his grade 
in the permanent establishment of the army and de- 
tailed to training work and provost marshal duties. 
The reason given for this demotion was permitting 
units of the brigade to move during the daylight. 

During the march across from the St. Mihiel to 
the Argonne the commanding officers of the three 
regiments and the Ammunition Train seriously dis- 
cussed asking for an inspector or preferring charges 
against this officer, but were deterred from doing so 
by the belief that he would soon be relieved, which 
shortly followed. The sentiments aroused by his re- 
moval from the brigade were, to say the least, of an 
entirely different nature from those at the departure 
of General Gatley. 

Even now, that the war is over and those who 
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possible to say all that might in full truth and justice 
be said about some phases of the service without grow- 
ing so profane that this volume would be barred from 
the mails. When lives of human bemgs are being 
dealt with, the men who obey should certainly feel 
that they are being led by men of fairness, justice, 
ability and technical knowledge. It is most discour- 
aging and destructive of morale to know that such is 
not the case. It is hard for free men to be subjected 
to a tyrannical, unreasonable and wholly unjust and 
hopelessly ignorant and incompetent leadership with- 
out rebelling. But the iron discipline of war times 
permits of no refusal to obey the most foolhardy com- 
mand unless the one refusing cares to do so at his 
peril. In the maelstrom of an active campaign there 
is no time to investigate claims and charges, however 
meritorious, which, amid the gigantic affairs of the 
great struggle, necessarily seem petty and insignificant. 
Unreasonable orders were disregarded, foolhardy ones 
were ignored and many a man returned safely to the 
United States who would have slept forever in France 
had not the commanding officers of some of the smaller 
units, at their peril, be it remembered, used their own 
judgment instead of blindly obeying orders that were 
so ill-considered and tactically impossible as to be 
nothing less than criminal. 

On Sunday. July 14th, the band and a picked 
battalion from this regiment went to Rennes for the 
French celebration of Bastile Day. The occasion was 
observed with most impressive ceremonies, large bodies 
of French soldiers, and smaller detachments or com- 
panies from all of the allied nations taking part. After 
the review decorations were awarded to a number of 
Flench veterans. 

On Sunday. July 21st, a fete of the French Red 
Cross, for the benefit of the French wounded soldiers, 
was held at the Chateau des Brieux, near Paimpont 
la Forge. 

On Thursday, August 1st, the training of the bat- 
teries had progressed sufficiently for the regiment as a 
whole to take part in a battle problem. The schedule 
was earned out without a hitch and won highest praise 
from the instructors. On August 7-8th the regiment, 
with the 1 1 3th and 1 I 4th Regiments, participated in 
a brigade problem. This was the climax of the course 
of tiainmg and the brigade was now pronounced ready 
for entry into active service. 

On August I 6th eleven officers from the regiment. 



and an equal number from the I 1 4th, left for the 
United States to serve as instructors in the National 
Army units there being trained. Each officer so re- 
turned was to receive one grade promotion. A copy 
of the order is to be found elsewhere in this volume. 

From the completion of the brigade problem until 
the regiment entrained for the front, the time was 
spent in practice marches and special instruction. The 
training really closed with the firing of the brigade 
problem. 

On August 20th the I 14th, the first unit of the 
brigade, began entraining for Toul and the front. 
The 1 I 3th followed, and on Sunday, August 25th, 
the Headquarters Company, I I 5th F. A., departed 
from Guer at 8:55 A.M. for Toul. E, F and B 
Batteries followed the same day and the other units 
of the regiment entrained on Monday. 

On the very eve of the departure of the regiment 
for the front, orders were received for Colonel Harry 
S. Berry and seven other officers to report to Le Mans 
as witnesses in a court-martial proceeding growing out 
ol an incident at Le Harve which was due entirely to 
the unreasonableness and officiousness of certain junior 
officers in no wise connected with the regiment. These 
individuals by their offensive manner provoked a per- 
sonal difficulty which caused the detention of both 
principals and witnesses. The whole affair is typical 
of the conduct of certain petty minions of the great 
S. O. S. There was a studied endeavor, it almost 
seemed, on the part of many of the habitues of the 
Service of Supply to humiliate and make life unbear- 
able for officers of combat units. There was an in- 
solence of demeanor on the part of many of these lit- 
tle military misfits that tempted a fighting man to deal 
with them as he would with a snarling, snapping lap 
dog. Strange as it may seem there was no inclina- 
tion to use physical violence against them. They 
didn't arouse a man in that way. It is difficult to 
express just the feeling of disgust and loathing that 
they inspired. They strutted like peacocks, were most 
carefully groomed, most precise in the rigidity of their 
bearing, most curt and insolent in all their utterances, 
and seemed to devote their lives to the lofty mission 
of trying to humiliate some one, especially an officer 
of higher rank. Evidently this type of counterfeit 
soldier reached the flower of perfection in the prison 
camps of France, to judge from the evidence being 
elicited by the Congressional investigation. Nor is 



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this type peculiar to the inexperienced officers from 
civil hfe, for a snob is a snob wherever he is found. 
In the regular army this individual flourishes, as may 
easily be demonstrated by an examination of most 
any file of official correspondence. Here he revels, 
here is his golden opportunity, and he may vent his 
venom and display his littleness of soul in a biting, 
sarcastic and intentionally humiliating indorsement. 
What supreme joy it must give, the writing of those 
indorsements! What thought and effort are devoted to 
them! What unholy glee deep within the narrow con- 
fines of the writer's shriveled soul as he puts together 
this masterpiece of veiled insolence and cutting scorn! 
All of which arouses a desire in a normal man to take 
a dirty mop and a bucket of none too clean water and 
swab out the entire type from the army. But the 
war is over now and the men who were subjected to 
such treatment are out of service and can no longer 
be humiliated with impunity. It was just these things 
that caused so many men to return to their civil pur- 
suits with a bad taste in their mouths concerning the 
regular army. It was these things that have caused above 
1,600 officers of the regular army out of the 10,000 
who held commissions at the date of the armistice to 
resign from the service and seek a livelihood in civil 
life where they would not be studiously humiliated 
and insulted without recourse, and under the protec- 
tion of superior rank or by some one presuming as 
the representative of some superior officer. It was 
these things that caused many of the officers of the 
temporary establishment, who asked to remain in the 
army, to seek their immediate release when they were 
truly initiated into the mystic brotherhood of peace- 
time soldiering, with all its little bickerings and back- 
biting and petty jealousies and more petty revenges. 

And yet, out of this trivial incident, the regiment 
took its departure for the front without its command- 



ing officer, a man who had given two full years of his 
life to its training and upbuilding, and here, upon 
the eve of the achievement of every soldier's ambition, 
the threshhold of an active campaign, it is considered 
more important that he and seven of his officers should 
be held as witnesses and the regiment sent into battle 
short of officers, than the petty incident should have 
been closed with, at most, a reprimand for the single 
officer who had the words with the individuals who 
took it upon themselves to interfere. 

But the circumlocution mill of military injustice 
had to grind out its grist, like the mills of the gods, 
exceedingly fine. The regiment went to the front 
under command of Lieut. -Col. William J. Bacon, 
and not until the 30th of September did the regi- 
mental commander rejoin. So impatient was Colonel 
Berry to get into active command of his outfit that he 
remained in Paris only long enough to catch the next 
train to the front, although his travel orders permitted 
of a leave there. 

Arrival at the Front 
The first train of the eight which transported the 
regiment arrived at Toul on the morning of August 
27th. Not even the commanding officer knew the 
destination until the train pulled into Toul and Capt. 
W. J. Apperson and Lieutenants Hartley and Milli- 
ken. who had been sent forward for liaison duty, 
boarded the train and disclosed the secret that the 
regiment would detrain there. 

The units, as they arrived, were immediately un- 
loaded and marched a few kilometers out of the city 
of Toul and screened from enemy aerial observation 
under the mighty trees which lined either side of the 
road. Here the day was spent and the men secured 
such sleep as they could. At dusk the batteries 
marched fourteen kilometers to the Foret de la Reine, 
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established near the 1 1 3th and 1 1 4th Artilleries and 
the 105th Ammunition Train. Colonel Lewis, of 
the Train, was much envied, as his area possessed the 
only building in die entire forest, a tumbled down 
shack built of sticks and chinked with mud. It was 
truly a bivouac for the command, dog tents serving 
as shelters. Regimental headquarters, the office only, 
was established in a French covered wagon, a fourgon. 
and liaison was maintained with the brigade head- 
quarters at Lucey, eight kilometers distant to the rear, 
by mounted messengers. 

The remaining units of the regiment arrived at Toul 
on the 28th. and that night and the night of the 29th 
made the march to the echelon. On August 27 
E Battery was put into line north of Noviant. reliev- 
ing a battery of the 319th F. A. of the !57th Bri- 
gade and 82d Division. Battery F took over the 
following night, thus putting the 3d Battalion fii^st 
into line. To E Battery fell the distinction of firing 
the first shot of the war for the regiment. The com- 
manding officer of the 3d Battalion established a post 
ot command at Manonviile. 

Now began a period of the most intensive activity. 
Under brigade orders the regimental P. C. was moved 
first to Boyer Farm, more than six kilometers from 
the P. C. of the 3d Battalion and more than twelve 
kilometers from the regimental echelon. This move 
was made on the night of .August 29th. Not until 
this night did ail of the units of the regiment assemble 
at the echelon, which had been moved to the Bcis 
Menii-la-Tour, 

On .August 30tli the big ammunition dump at 
Royaumieux. less than halt a mile from the regimental 
echelon, was blown up by enemy shell fire, making 
a most deafening detonation and shaking the earth. 

On the afternoon of the 28th the town of Manon- 
viile was shelled by German nine-inch guns, eighteen 



projectiles falling harmlessly in a vacant field near 
the town, and only five of them exploding. 

Preparing for the Dri\ e 

Reconnaissance of battery positions and of bat- 
talion and regimental P. C.'s \vere made and work 
was immediately begun to orient the batteries and the 
preparation of camouflage and the other work of get- 
ting in readiness for the big St. Mihiel drive. Po.sitions 
were selected lor .A and B batteries in the Bois de la 
Hazelle, a kilometer and a half north of Bemecourt. 
Old French positions, on either side of the railroad 
running from Tcul to Thiaucourt. were improved and 
occupied, B Battery being to the west and A Battery 
to the east of the railroad. The commanding officer 
of this battalion had his command post just at the 
south border of the forest, beside the railroad. In 
the open ground between the forest and Bemecourt, 
a magnificent railroad bridge across a valley had been 
destroyed by the French when they retreated south 
before the victorious Germans in 1914. In a dugout 
under this bridge the regimental telephone central 
was established. 

The second battalion was placed in the same forest 
further forward and to the east, on either side of the 
road from Bemecourt to Flirey, D Battery to the 
west and C Battery to the east. The Major's com- 
mand post was in a concrete culvert under this road, 
midway between the batteries. 

E and F Batteries, the 3d Battalion, were about a 
kilometer and a half north of Noviant, with Battalion 
P. C, just outside that town. 

D day was the 12th of September and H hour 
was 5:00 o'clock. It must be remembered that the 
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hour, and one A.M., one hour. However, the desig- 
nation of the day and hour was guarded with the 
utmost secrecy and was not officially disclosed to the 
regimental commanders in the brigade until the 
twentieth hour on the 1 I th of September, the regi- 
mental commanders all being assembled at brigade 
headquarters and given the information in person. 
That morning, at Minorville, where Colonel Luke 
Lea, of the 1 14th F. A., had his P. C, the French 
town crier beat his drum and assembled the villagers 
and announced in a loud voice, that all might hear, 
"Everybody must get cut of town; the bombardment 
starts at one o'clock tonight." 

From the moment the regiment arrived at the front 
until the night of the I I th, every minute, day and 
night, was consumed in feverish activities. Even at 
the echelon there was always work or excitement. 
Gas alarms were of nightly occurrence, breaking what 
little rest the men were able to get between working 
all day and hauling ammunition all night. The first 
gas alarm, because of its novelty and the harrowing 
tales of the deadly effect of a gas attack which had 
been taught at the schools, caused great excitement 
and much confusion, coming as it did in the dead of 
night, with no lights. The men of the regiment, how- 
ever, disregarding their personal safety, sought out thr 
horses where they were picketed in small groups in 
the dense undergrowth and put gas masks on every 
one of them. This particular alarm arose in a most 
ridiculous manner, and spread for many miles along 
the front. It seems that a French automobile driver, 
contrary to orders, sounded his Klaxon in the zone 
near the front. Some nervous sentry hearing the sound, 
mistook it for a gas alarm and immediately passed it 
along. It was taken up by every gas sentry in the 
district and spread for miles before the mistake was 
discovered. 

Every night all available horses of the regiment, 
that were not moving guns and rations, were set to 
hauling ammunition. Very little of the 10,800 rounds 
with which the regiment started the drive were hauled 
except with its own horses. When it is considered 
that this IS nearly ninety ammunition truck loads, the 
magnitude of the task will be appreciated. Horses 
were used in spite of the fact that narrow-gauge rail- 
roads ran directly to four of the battery positions 
and a magnificent pike ran to the other two. On 
one occasion eighty trucks were sent to Boucq Nord 
to haul ammunition for the regiment, but, like Old 



Mother Hubbard, when they got there the ammuni- 
tion dump was bare and only twenty of them secured 
loads, the others returning empty, thus consuming a 
night's possible hauling for sixty trucks, when trans- 
portation was the most vital need in the preparation 
for the drive. Night after night orders would be re- 
ceived from the brigade that the narrow-gauge road 
would deliver ammunition at some point. These or- 
ders generally came after nightfall and details to 
receive and unload the ammunition had to be assem- 
bled in the dark and dispatched with unseemly haste, 
only to stand all night at the designated station and 
not a round would be received. In this hauling of 
ammunition was the beginning of the end for the poor 
horses. It was pitiful to see them weaken and fail 
and become unserviceable. But orders were always 
imperative to employ ever]} available horse, and none 
dared to disobey. Certain high officers seemed to 
think that horses could work twenty-four hours in 
every twenty-four and keep sleek and fat and well 
conditioned and happy. Remonstrances only brought 
down a tirade of most vicious and abusive language 
upon the head of the officers who endeavored to save 
the horses. 

On September 3d regimental headquarters were 
moved from Boyer Farm to Tuileries Farm, near the 
echelon, and on September 5th, again moved to Sanzey. 
The 2d Battalion relieved the 3d on the night of 
September 3d, and was in turn relieved in a few days 
by the 3d Battalion. Work was pushed feverishly 
on preparing the new positions for the big drive and 
in getting telephone lines established and tested and 
having everything in readiness for D day. Emer- 
gency rations were drawn and issued. On the after- 
noon of September 8th a shrapnel case from an enemy 
anti-aircraft gun fell on the float of A Battery's No. 
I gun and drove through the quarter-inch steel as if it 
had been paper. Enemy airplanes were extremely 
active, and scarcely a day went by that there were 
not air combats overhead and some of the allied ob- 
servation balloons shot down in flames. A German 
plane, flying low over the woods, fired with its ma- 
chine gun on the regimental echelon the second day 
after the regiment arrived at the front, but luckily 
no one was injured. It was a mystery that the Ger- 
mans did not shell the crossroads and wooded areas 
more than they did. Every bit of woodland was 
chock full of men and horses and material, and at 
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was some shelling, of course, and some casualties, but 
nothing like what it would have been had the Germans 
systematically shelled these areas. 

The 3d Battalion remained in the positions north 
of Noviant and Manonville, which it first took over 
from the 319th F. A., until the night of the 10th, 
when they were relieved and moved into their new- 
positions for the big show. A, B, C, and D Bat- 
teries had already occupied their new positions, and 
on the night of the 1 I th all was in readiness. It was 
a tense time, the first advent of the regiment into real 
warfare. The work that had been done so far had 
been entirely of a defensive nature, but now the true 
test of the regiment was at hand. Now was to be 
demonstrated its worth as a fighting machine. 

St. Mihiel Offensive 

Regimental headquarters was moved to Bernecouri 
on September 1 0th, and on the night of September 
1 1th, at 1 :00 o'clock A.M., the corps and army artil- 
.ery began the action that was to wipe out the salient 
in twenty-four hours and to establish the First Ameri- 
can Army in the respect of the world. The divisional 
schedule was carried through without a hitch. The 
brigade from its arrival at the front until its part in 
this drive was over was attached to the 89th Division. 

The batteries of the regiment continued firing until 
3:00 o'clock in the afternoon of the 12th, when or- 
ders were received from the brigade to cease firing 
and move forward by battalions to positions to be 
selected in the vicinity of Thiaucourt. The 2d Bat- 
talion was ordered to move that afternoon, the First 
the following morning and the 3d during the same 
day, the 1 3th. The 3d Battalion was to make the 
last move, because it was held in position to deliver 
fire in case of a counter attack. 

The night of the 1 2th the regimental commander, 
accompanied only by Capt. W. J. Apperson, Opera- 
tions Officer; Lieut. Samuel G. Anspach, Intelligence 
Officer; Lieut. Jean Roul Lamothe, of the French 
Army, Liaison Officer, and Corporal Gomez and Pri- 
vates Weinrich and Thuett, rode ahead of the regi- 
ment, crossed No-Man's Land and arrived in Thiau- 
court at 1 :00 o'clock A.M., on the morning of the 1 3th. 

By 3:00 o'clock the afternoon of the 13th the 
2d Battalion was in position just to the east of Bouil- 
lionville, where the regimental P. C. had been estab- 
lished, and on the following afternoon the 1st Bat- 
talion had also arrived and occupied positions. These 



batteries did some firing, necessarily limited because 
of ammunition supply, as the horses were so worn out 
and so many of them had become unserviceable that 
transportation difficulties had already become acute. 
The only ammunition fired was such as the batteries 
had been able to bring along with them. 

Late in the afternoon of the Nth the 3d Battalion, 
which had become lost on the road and had gone 
many kilometers out of the way, arrived, but before 
the horses were unhitched orders were received for the 
entire brigade to retire out of the salient. The move- 
ment was to begin at dark and the town of Essey 
had to be cleared by all units before midnight. The 
brigade had been in support of the 89th Division, 
which had the sector from Flirey to Limey, approxi- 
mately. The artillery of this division had arrived from 
its training area in South France, and the 55th F. A. 
Brigade was designated to move immediately to the 
Argonne forest for participation in the Meuse-Ar- 
gonne drive. 

All units of the brigade were subjected to shell 
fire as they passed through Essey that night, and Ger- 
man planes hovered over and dropped bombs, but 
the 1 1 5th Artillery cleared the town in good order 
without the loss of a single man or horse, although 
shells fell in great profusion and a water can was 
knocked from the caisson of one of the guns in D 
Battery. The regiment had gone through its first 
offensive operation without a battle casualty. 

In the official statistical summary of the War with 
Germany, prepared by Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, 
of the U. S. Army General Staff, the following com- 
ment on the St. Mihiel Offensive is given: 

The attack began at 5 A.M.. after four hours of artillery 
preparalion of great severity, and met with immediate success. 
Before noon about half of the distance between the bases of 
the salient had been covered and the next morning troops of 
the First and Twenty-sixth Divisions met at Vigneulies, cut- 
ting off the salient within twenty-four hours from the beginning 
of the movement. 

Two comparisons between this operation and the battle of 
Gettysburg emphasize the magnitude of the action. About 
550,000 Americans were engaged at St. Mihiel: the Union 
forces at Gettysburg numbered approximately 100,000. St. 
Mihiel set a record for concentration of artillery by a four- 
hour artillery preparation, consuming more than 1,000,000 
rounds of ammunition. In three days at Gettysburg Union 
artillery fired 33.000 rounds. 

The St. Mihiel Offensive cost only about 7,000 casualties, 
less than one-third the Union losses at Gettysburg. There 
were captured 16.000 prisoners and 443 guns. A dangerous 
enemy salient was reduced, and American commanders and 



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troops demonstrated their ability to plan and execute a big 
American operation. 

General Pershing in his official report to the Sec- 
retary of War, by cable, of the operations of the 
American forces, has the following to say of this first 
distinctively American Offensive: 

Battle of St. MmiEL 

With the reduction of the Marne salient, we could look for- 
ward to the concentration of our divisions in our own zone. 
In view of the forthcoming operation against the St. Mihiel 
salient, which had long been planned as our first offensive action 
on a large scale, the First Army was organized on August lOth 
under my personal command. While American units had held 
different divisional and corps sectors along the western front, 
there had not been up to this time, for obvious reasons, a 
distinct American sector; but, in view of the important parts 
the American forces were now to play, it was necessary to 
take over a permanent portion of the line. Accordingly, on 
August 30th. the line beginning at Port sur Seille, east of the 
Moselle and extending to the west through St. Mihiel. thence 
'north lo a point opposite Verdun, was placed under my com- 
mand. The American sector was afterward extended across 
the Meuse to the western edge of the Argonne Forest, and 
included the 2d Colonial French, which held the point of the 
salient, and the 1 7th French Corps, which occupied the heights 
above Verdun. 

The preparation for a complicated operation against the 
formidable defenses in front of us included the assembling of 
divisions and of corps and army artillery, transport aircraft, 
tanks, ambulances, the location of hospitals, and the molding 
together of all the elements of a great modern army with its 
own railheads, supplied directly by our own Service of Sup- 
ply. The concentration for this operation, which was to be a 
surprise, involved the movement, mostly at night, of approxi- 
mately 600,000 troops, and required for its success the most 
careful attention to every detail. 

The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps 
and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident 
from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of 
all calibres. Our heavy guns were able to reach Metz and to 
interfere seriously with German rail movements. The French 
Independent Air Force was placed under my command, which, 
together with the British bombing squadrons and our air forces, 
gave us the largest assembly of aviators that had ever been 
engaged in one operation on the western front. 

From Les Eparges around the nose of the salient at St. 
Mihiel to the Moselle River the line was, roughly, forty miles 
long and situated on commanding ground greatly strengthened 
by artificial defenses. Our 1st Corps (82d, 90th. 5th, and 2d 
Divisions), under command of Maj.-Gen. Hunter Liggett, rest- 
ing its right on Pont-a-Mousson, with its left joining our 3d 
Corps (the 89th, 42d, and 1st Divisions), under Maj.-Gen. 
Joseph T. Dickman, in line to Xivray, was to swing toward 
Vigneulles on the pivot of the Moselle River for the initial 
assault. From Xivray to Mouilly the 2d Colonial French 
Corps was in line in the center, and our 5th Corps, under 



command of Maj.-Gen. George H. Cameron, with our 26th 
Division and a French division at the western base of the 
salient, was to attack three difficult hills — Les Eparges, Com- 
bres, and Amaranthe. Our 1st Corps had in reserve the 78th 
Division, our 4th Corps the 3d Division, and our First Army 
the 35th and 91st Divisions, with the 80th and 33d available. 
It should be understood that our corps organizations are very 
elastic, and that we have at no time hod permanent assignments 
of divisions to corps. 

After four hours' artillery preparation, the seven American 
divisions in the front line advanced at 5 A.M., on September 
12. assisted by a limited number of tanks, manned partly by 
Americans and partly by French. These divisions, accom- 
panied by groups of wire cutters and others armed with banga- 
lore torpedoes, went through the successive bands of barbed 
wire that protected the enemy's front-line and support trenches 
in inesislible waves on schedule time, breaking down all de- 
fense of an enemy demorahzed by the great volume of our 
artillery fiie and our sudden approach out of the fog. 

Our 1st Corps advanced to Thiaucourt, while our 4th Corps 
curved back to the southwest through Nonsard. The 2d 
Colonial French Corps made the slight advance required of 
It on very difficult ground, and the 5th Corps took its three 
ridges and repulsed a counter attack. A rapid march brought 
reserve regiments of a division of the 5th Corps into V^igneulles 
and beyond Fresnes-en-Woevre. At the cost of only 7,000 
casualties, mostly light, we had taken 16,000 prisoners and 443 
guns, a gieat quiintity of material, released the inhabitants of 
many villages from enemy domination, and established our 
lines in a position lo threaten Metz. This signal success of the 
American First Army in its first offensive was of prime im- 
portance. The Allies found they had a formidable army to 
aid them, and the enemy learned finally that he had one to 
reckon with. 

It had been the intention from the outset to assem- 
ble an American Army. Nothing less would have 
satisfied the nation nor the fighting men that it had 
sent across the seas. America must take a distinc- 
tive part in the big struggle. It was all right to help 
the French and British so long as our troops had not 
been assembled in sufficient numbers to undertake a 
big operation on their own score. But however long 
our fighting forces might serve with the armies of the 
Allies, the credit for anything they might accomplish 
would be necessarily overshadowed by the veteran 
divisions of the force to which they were attached. 

When General Pershing, at the direction of Presi- 
dent Wilson, had offered the entire fighting forces of 
the United States to Marshal Foch, this idea of an 
American Army had not in the least been abandoned. 
The individuality of the American forces had been 
subordinated to the common interest of the Allies. 
After the onrush of the Germans had been stayed at 
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the invaders back from the Marne, our troops had 
demonstrated their fighting abihties sufficiently to 
justify thinking of carrying out the original plan. In 
addition, the American Expeditionary Force had 
swelled to a size to warrant it. 

The Supreme Commander, gratified at the Allied 
victories, and greatly pleased with the achievements 
of the American soldiers, gave a promise to General 
Pershing that the Americans should be allowed to 
wipe out the St. Mihiel salient. It may be that the 
great Marshal had his doubts about the successful 
accomplishment of this task, but the promise was 
given nevertheless. 

When he arrived in France General Pershing 
urged that the objective first to be sought by the Allies 
should be Metz and the rich iron fields around Briey. 
Metz was too strongly fortified and defended to per- 
mit of a frontal attack. Two avenues of advance 
for these objectives remained. The one, to the west 
through the Argonne, driving to the northward of 
Verdun, to cut the Metz-Sedan-Mezieres net of rail- 
roads, thence turning eastward and isolating Metz by 
cutting the railroads running northward from the city 
into Luexemburg and Germany. The other plan was 
to drive northward to the eastward of Nancy, through 
Lorraine, and then turn north and west and cut the 
railroads from Metz north as in the first plan. Both 
plans had their difficulties. The terrain in Lorraine 
was of the roughest, broken and rolling and hard to 
operate over, while the Argonne forest itself was con- 
s:dered entirely impregnable. Both plans of attack 
had the added drawback of the St. Mihiel salient. 
In either case, the attack would be begun with the 
menace of the salient at the outset, and the further 



the attack advanced the more dangerous would the 
salient become. It would be almost like defending 
the front of a house and leaving the back door un- 
guarded and wide open. Long range guns in the 
salient could harass our forces ; it was an ideal as- 
sembling point for a counter attack; the further we 
would advance the longer distance it would be in 
moving troops from one side of the salient to the 
other; as it stood it had practically closed the rail- 
roads through Commercy and had quite put out of 
commission that from Verdun to Toul. It was more 
than a menace ; it was an ever-present danger. 

Every tactical consideration urged its reduction be- 
fore the beginning of any such ambitious project as 
the capture of Metz. The French had hammered 
at the salient for four years and had paid most dearly 
in lives and casualties, with nothing substantial to 
show in territory gained. The lines of the salient 
were practically just as they had been at the initial 
occupation of it by the Germans. The Bosche had 
net rested idly m this sector for the four years of 
their occupancy. They had strengthened it with every 
device known to the art of war. In addition to the 
outer defenses, which were quite as strong as any por- 
tion of the Hindenburg line, they had built lines 
across the salient that were, if anything, stronger and 
better prepared than those about the salient itself. 

The heights around Les Eparges, at the northwest 
corner of the salient, had been the scene of desperate 
fighting ever since the Germans dug in there in 1914. 
It is estimated that more than 50,000 French sol- 
diers have been killed in the fighting here and none 
may know the number of wounded. In fact, Les 
Eparges is even better known in France than Ver- 




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dun, for its sinister name has brought sorrow into 
more homes, perhaps, than that of any one other 
city or town or village of the entire battle front. 

On the south side of the salient, almost north of 
Beaumont, is Mont Sec, a steep little mountain rising 
abruptly out of the lower ground and dominating all 
the territory from the heights of the Meuse to the west 
entirely across to Pont-a-Mousson, on the Mozelle. 
Here, too, had been desperate and costly fighting. 
In 1915 the French attempted to take this mountain 
by storm. It is estimated that more than 30,000 
Frenchmen were killed in the fighting here. 

Nevertheless the promise was secued from Marshal 
Foch for the Americans to attempt the reduction of 
the salient. This promise was given in July, after 
the first victories of the Allies and the offensive had 
been wrested from the Bosche. To carry out this 
first American major operation General Pershing on 
August 10th organized the First American Army, 
himself assuming command. The assembling point 
was the Toul area and the objective was the St. Mihiel 
salient. In August Marshal Foch announced to the 
Allied commanders-in-chief his plan for a general 
offensive from the North Sea to the Alps, and wished 
to retract the promise he had given General Pershing 
for a distinctively American offensive against the St. 
Mihiel salient. 

There were many interesting rumors concerning this 
interview between the Marshal and the American 
Commander-in-Chief. It was even reported that they 
had indulged in most violent language towards each 
other and that they had severed personal relations. 
However that may have been, the promise held good, 
but it was modified to the extent that the Americans 
should attack on September 12 th and continue for 
three days, the 1 2th, 1 3th and 1 4th, and that any 
ground gained should be held, but no attempt would 
be made to further follow up a success beyond the 
night of the 14th. The entire responsibility was to 
be American, as was the entire command. The at- 
tack was made short because of the plan to attempt 
the more ambitious drive through the Argonne forest 
and the sector eastward to the Mouse River and the 
necessity for all of the American divisions possible 
for that. 

The March to the Argonne 
The fag end of the night of the 1 4th of Septem- 
ber and the day of the 1 5th were spent in a morass 



south of the town of Rambucourt, in Le Faux Bois 
Nauginsard. It was a miserable swamp and must 
have been picked from the map by some staff officer 
who had made no reconnaissance of it. Eleven Sec- 
ond Lieutenants, who had just graduated from Sau- 
mur, joined the regiment here. 

From this time on the regiment marched by nightly 
stages to Rarecourt and the southern end of the Ar- 
gonne forest, arriving at Camp Malleray, in the forest 
itself, on the night of September 20th, by way of 
Boncourt, Pont-sur-Meuse, Belrain, Serancourt and 
Ippecourt. This camp had just been vacated by a 
French ammunition train and was in a filthy condi- 
tion. It rained nearly every night and the horses, 
already worn out by hauling ammunition for the St. 
Mihiel drive and the moving of the guns in that offen- 
sive, began to fail rapidly. Horseshoes were plenti- 
ful, but nails could not be secured, although the sup- 
ply officer scouted every railhead and supply depot 
from Toul to Verdun. When a horse lost a shoe there 
was nothing to do but turn it loose and trust that it 
would be picked up by some outfit that possessed 
nails. The horses could not travel on the rock roads 
without shoes. There was also trouble in securing 
forage, and the horses began to fall out so steadily that 
it soon became a problem to move the regiment at all. 

After resting a single night at Camp Malleray the 
regiment moved into the Bois de Fulcheres, and the 
regimental P. C. was established at Verrieres Farm, 
in the Bois des Lambechamp, and preparation was 
begun for the biggest battle in history — the Meuse- 
Argonne. 

The regiment had three especially trying and rough 
experiences in France, all of them on movements. The 
first was the march from the St. Mihiel to the Ar- 
gonne, the second the march into Luxemburg, and the 
third the journey from Trondes to Le Mans. These 
three movements will linger always in the memory of 
those who took part in them as among the most un- 
pleasant features of the war in Europe. 

The ten-night hike across to the Argonne was the 
roughest of the three, and the one in which the men 
suffered the most physical exhaustion. All will look 
back upon it as a nightmare. It rained every night 
almost without exception. The roads were in none 
too good repair and were reeking with slush and mud. 
Billeting facilities were of the poorest and cooking was 
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One of the Ruined Villages 



The movement began with darkness and frequently 
it was well after daylight before the last unit of the 
regiment would arrive at its destination. One night 
the regiment remained all night long on the road in 
a rain, of course, and only moved about two miles. 

Shoes wore out and none could be secured to re- 
place them. Rations and forage supply was poor, 
and sometimes failed entirely, the men being forced 
to fall back upon the iron or emergency ration. Very 
little sleeping was possible, as horses had to be watered 
and fed before the men could seek rest. This march 
tried the souls of men. The regiment went through 
it like veterans. No lights of any kind were permitted 
at night, and the greatest secrecy was maintained 
through the day, men and material being concealed in 
every possible way. German bombing planes were 
over both day and night and columns which failed to 
take proper precautions came in for casualties. It is 
to the credit of the regiment that in all the marching 
and movements it made at the front not once was it 
bombed from the air. 

Before the march was finished the men were prac- 
tically exhausted and the horses were so in fact. All 
through the night men and horses would stagger along 
m the rain and darkness and muck. Arriving at the 
halt for the day, the men would see to the horses and 
then throw themselves down in stables, under wagons, 
in abandoned buildings, anywhere, and sleep like dead 
men until the orders were recei^ ed for the night's 
march, and preparations for the movement were set 
under way. Bolting an unsatisfactory meal, they 
would pack and harness and resume the weary march 
that seemed fated to last forever. None knew the 
destination nor when the march would terminate. 



With their torn and muddy clothing, ragged shoes 
and soiled equipment, with jaded, half-starved horses, 
it looked more like the retreat of a beaten than the 
advance of a victorious arm)'. 

Those who took part in it may well call themselves 
veterans. It was campaigning such as will quickly 
make seasoned soldiers or casualties out of the rawest 
recruits. Bivouac in the rain and open or billets in the 
soiled and scarred towns of the near front, it was all 
the same. 

All the towns were pitiful. Even those that were 
some distance from the old lines of the St. Mihiel 
salient had paid the frightful price of warfare. At 
Boncourt, near Commercy, the morning the regiment 
arrived, the civilian population returned after an ab- 
sence of four years. The church bells were tolled 
and the priest, who had remained during all the time 
of stress and trouble and danger, met his flock and 
welcomed them home. At the church a service was 
held to celebrate the return of the wanderers. And 
what a home-coming it was. What joy was mani- 
fested by the few civilians who had remained, at the 
return of their old neighbors. What chattering and 
gesticulating and embracing and running to and fro; 
what joyous exclamations. The face of the old priest 
was a sight; that seen can never be forgotten. He 
was beatified. Weary soldiers, dead for sleep, ex- 
hausted to the point of collapse, stood in the streets 
and watched the little procession of Red Cross trucks 
as it entered the village and unloaded. They watched 
it reverently, whatever may have been their nation- 
ality and whatever their religion, and they will be bet- 
ter men so long as they may live for having seen. No 
man who witnessed this incident can fail to have a 



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kindly sympathy, a profound understanding and a last- 
ing respect for the French people. 

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive 

Personal reconnaissance was made of battery posi- 
tions and work of preparing them was started. E 
and F Batteries, the 3d Battalion, were stationed in 
the open, in advance of the infantry line of resistance 
just north of the Bois Sud d'Avocourt, and a little 
more than a kilometer from that village, which was 
the Allied front lines. The 1st Battalion was to the 
right in the same woods, and the 2d Battalion was 
further to the right in the Bois d'Esnes, a portion of 
the great Foret de Hesse. 

The regiment was in support of the 37th Division, 
Ohio National Guard, and the sector of this division 
was almost midway between the Meuse River and 
the western edge of the Argonne Forest. The ground 
over which it had to advance was of the roughest, 
including the dense and heavily defended Bois de 
Montfaucon. 

On the night of the 25th all dispositions had been 
made, ammunition had been received, telephone lines 
established, and all was in readiness for the big bat- 
tle. Lieutenant McMurray, regimental telephone 
officer, who had been gassed while guiding a truck 
train of ammunition to the forward regimental ammu- 
nition dump, was sent to the hospital. He had been 
gassed three nights before, but declined to submit to 
being sent to the rear until he had established all 
telephone lines and had them in perfect working order. 

The battle began on the night of September 25th, 
the batteries of the regiment beginning their fire at 
2:30, on the morning of the 26th of September 
the infantry going over the top at 5:30 that morning. 
On the afternoon of the 26th the regiment was called 
upon, with the corps and army artillery, to fire on the 
town of Montfaucon (in the sector of the 79th Divi- 
sion, to the east of that of the 37th), \vhich was mak- 
ing a most stubborn resistance. 

On the morning of September 27th the regiment 
suffered its first battle casualties. Privates Isham and 
Alonzo Smith, cousins, of F Battery, being instantly 
killed by a German 77-shell, which struck a wagon 
under which they were sleeping. I st Sergeant James 
C. Gutherie was severely wounded, succumbing to his 
wounds later in the hospital. A horse hitched to the 
wagon was killed by the same shell. 

The horses of the regiment were so depleted and 



worked down and starved that it was physically im- 
possible to move the regiment forward as a whole. 
Only sufficient horses could be mustered to move three 
batteries and a few caissons of ammunition. It was 
decided to take one battery from each battalion. F 
was selected from the 3d, because of its position 
right on the road just south of Avocourt, the advance 
being through that town; B, from the 1st, because 
its four guns were all in operation, while two of A's 
had gone out of commission in the heavy firing. In 
the 2d Battalion D Battery was selected as a com- 
pliment to Captain Hugh B. Hooper, who had com- 
manded the battalion through the preparation for and 
initiation of the Argonne Offensive. The remaining 
batteries turned over their horses to these three, which 
were organized into a battalion under the senior Ma- 
jor. Battery F was to move forward the afternoon 
of the 27th to a position near Montfaucon, B and D 
following the next day. 

These movements were made, regimental headquar- 
ters being advanced to a position in the Bois de Mont- 
faucon, near the cross roads, south to Montfaucon. 
The three batteries were put in position in the northern 
edge of the forest and did some heavy and very effec- 
tive firing here. A German artillery regiment advanc- 
ing south on the road north of Cierges was reported 
by an observation balloon, and B Battery was directed 
to fire upon it. After half an hour of zone fire on the 
road, all of which was done from the map, the bal- 
loon advised that the German column had been prac- 
tically destroyed. 

An observation station was established in a ruined 
building in Montfaucon, which is the highest point in 
all the Argonne country, and Lieutenant Anspach was 
put in charge of it. Forward battery positions to the 
west of Montfaucon, near Ivoiry, were prepared by 
details under Lieutenant Roxbury, and telephone wires 
were strung to them in readiness for occupancy. They 
were camouflaged with material found in an aban- 
doned German engineering dump. 

The battle, which had gone so well at the outset, 
now settled down to most cruel and grueling hard 
work. The 37th Division was relieved by the 32d, 
Michigan and Wisconsin National Guardsmen, and 
the three batteries were constantly being called upon 
for fire. With the aid of observation they did some 
very effective work and helped materially in the cap- 
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Cunel and Romagne. In all of these towns the 
Americans met with most stubborn resistance, and not 
until the artillery had hammered them viciously did 
they fall. A German prisoner, who was m the town 
of Romagne on October 2d, stated that the Ameri- 
can artillery had caused very heavy losses to his regi- 
ment, the 458th. 

In addition to firing on these towns and important 
crossroads and dumps, the regiment did some very 
effective counter battery work. The woods and val- 
leys about Romagne were teeming with enemy artil- 
lery, which harassed and held up our advance. Am- 
munition supply was good. Captain Walter Chandler, 
of Memphis, being m charge of this important work 
for the brigade, and Lieut. Tom Calvert, also of 
Memphis, for the regiment. 

General Shipton, who had commanded the brigade 
since the transfer of General Gatley to the 42d Divi- 
sion, was relieved and returned to the S. O. S. for 
reclassification, where he was reduced to his grade 
in the regular army and assigned to training and pro- 
vost marshal work. General Fleming was assigned 
to command the brigade, being in charge until the 
brigade was ordered to move to the Troyon sector to 
be re-equipped. 

Colonel Berry rejoined the regiment the 30th of 
September and immediately assumed command. He 
moved the batteries forward to the positions near Ivoiry 
and had charge of the plans and firing of the second 
offensive, which started on the morning of October 
4th. He showed a personal courage that was second 
to none, making reconnaissances in localities of the 
utmost danger and entirely disregarding his own wel- 
fare. On several occasions he narrowly escaped death 
from enemy shells which burst in his vicinity. In 
these positions the batteries were subjected to more 
enemy fire than in any other that they occupied in 
either the St. Mihiel or the Argonne and suffered more 
battle casualties. One man was killed, four men and 
one officer wounded, and about twenty-five men gassed. 
Captain Innis Brown, while engaged in observation 
at the fonvard station near Cierges, was wounded by 
a shell fragment and evacuated to the hospital. Pri- 
vate Arlie H. Ogle, D Battery, was killed by a shell 
while repairing a telephone line to the observation 
station, which had been cut by enemy fire. 

On October 4th the second phase of the Argonne 
started. The enemy's resistance had stiffened, fresh 
divisions had been thrown into the battle by them and 



the advance of the Americans had been slowed down 
and all but halted. Especial difficulty was being en- 
countered in the front held by the 32d Division, 
which the 55th F. A. Brigade was supporting as 
divisional artillery. The ground was strongly de- 
fended and stubbornly held by the best troops of 
the enemy. 

On the morning of the 4th of October, between 
5:25 and 11:10 o'clock, the regiment, under com- 
mand of Colonel Berry, fired a total of 1,551 rounds 
in support of the general advance of the American 
Army. This was one of the most important works 
done by the regiment in all its battle experiences, and 
materially aided in the successful outcome of this phase 
of the great Argonne Offensive. 

By the 7th of October the advance had progressed 
so well that the guns of the 1 I 5th were practically 
out of range, and the light regiments, too, were unable 
to follow it up because of loss of horses. It was, 
therefore, ordered that the entire brigade should move 
to what was considered a quiet sector to the south- 
est of Verdun, to be rested and re-equipped with 
horses, men and material before being again thrown 
back into the thick of the big battle. 

In the work of the provisional battalion in the for- 
ward positions in the Argonne Offensive, credit is due 
to all of the batteries of the regiment, as the men were 
rotated by batteries so that all might share in the 
creditable work done by the regiment. 

The second day of the fighting, September 27th, 
while the regimental command post was still at Ver- 
rieres Farm, the observation balloons had moved up 
near. From the entrance of the dugout used by the 
regimental headquarters six ballons could be seen. 
Shortly after noon a German plane shot down two in 
quick succession, one of them almost directly over the 
regimental P. C. Of the three officers in the two 
balloons, two escaped in their pharachutes, the other 
losing his life by the burning of his. One of the 
officers landed near the command post and proved to 
be Lieut. Herbert B. Hudnut, who had joined the 
regiment at Sevier and had transferred to the air 
service after arriving in France as a balloon observer. 
He was uninjured except for a scratch across the 
bridge of his nose, and exhibited a coolness that won 
the admiration of all his old friends upon whom he 
had dropped in so unexpectedly. 

The Americans had the mastery of the air in the 
St. Mihiel drive, but in the early part of the Argonne 



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Offensive the mastery was easily with the Germans. 
Their planes were over all the time and were most 
daring and reckless. Air battles were of frequent 
occurrence. German planes "jockeyed" the roads 
with their machine guns and dropped small bombs on 
artillery positions and infantry at pleasure. A plane 
was shot down by a machine gunner of the 11 5th 
F. A. while the provisional battalion was in position 
near Ivoiry. 

Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, of the General Staff 
of the United States Army, in his "The War With 
Germany," has the following brief summary of the 
Meuse-Argonne battle: 

The object of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, said Gen. 
Pershing in his report of November 20, 1918, was "to draw 
the best German divisions to our front and consume them. 
This sentence expresses better tSan any long description not 
only the object but also the outcome of the battle. Every 
available American division was thrown against the enemy. 
Every available German division was thrown to meet il. At 
the end of forty-seven days of continuous battle our divisions 
had consumed the German divisions. 

The goal of the American attack was the Sedan- Mezieres 
railroad, the main line of supply for the German forces on the 
major part of the western front. If this line were cut, a retire- 
ment on the whole front would be forced. This retire- 
ment would include, however, evacuation of the Briey iron 
fields, which the Germans had been using to great advantage 
to supplement their iron supply. The defense of the positions 
threatened was therefore of such importance as to warrant the 
most desperate measures for resistance. When the engagement 
was evidently impending the commander of the German Fifth 
Army sent word lo his forces, calling on them for unyielding 
resistance, and pointing out that defeat in this engagement might 
mean disaster for the Fatherland. 

On the first day, the 26th of September, and the next day 
or two after that, the lines were considerably advanced. Then 
the resistance became more stubborn. Each side threw in more 
and more of its man power until there were no more reserves. 
Many German divisions went into action twice, and not a few 
three times, until, through losses, they were far under strength. 
All through the month of October the attrition went on. On 
November 1st the last stage of the offensive began. The enemy 
power began to break. American troops forced their way to 
the east bank of the Meuse. Toward the north they made even 
more rapid progress, and in seven days reached the outskirts 
of Sedan and cut the Sedan-Mezieres railroad, making the 
German lines untenable. 

In some ways the Meuse-Argonne offers an interesting resem- 
blance to the Battle of the Wildernes;, fought from May 5 to 
12, 1864, in the Civil War. Both were fought over a terrain 
covered with tangled woods and underbrush. The Wilderness 
was regarded as a long battle, marked by slow progress, against 
obstinate resistance, with very heavy casualties. Here the 
similarity ends. The Meuse-Argonne lasted six times as long 
as the Battle of the Wilderness. Twelve times as many Ameri- 



can troops were engaged as were on the Union side. They 
used in action ten times as many guns and fired about one hun- 
dred times as many rounds of artillery ammunition. The actual 
weight of the ammunition fired was greater than that used by the 
Union forces during the entire Civil War. Casualties were 
perhaps four times as heavy as among the Northern troops in 
the Battle of the Wilderness. 

The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne was beyond compare the 
greatest ever fought by American troops, and there have been 
few, if any, greater battles in the history of the world. 

American Data for the Meuse-Argonne Battle 

Days of battle 47 

American troops engaged 1 ,200,000 

Guns employed in attack, artillery 2,417 

Rounds of ammunition fired 4,214,000 

Airplanes used 840 

Tons of explosives dropped by planes on enemy lines. . 100 

Miles of penetration of enemy lines 34 

Square kilometers of territory taken 1,550 

Villages and towns liberated 1 50 

P'risoners captured 26,059 

Artillery pieces captured 468 

Machine guns captured 2,864 

Trench mortars captured 177 

American casualties 120,000 

Report of General Pershing 
In his official summary of the war, made to Secre- 
tary Baker, General Pershing makes the following 
comment on the Meuse-Argonne Offensive: 

Meuse-Argonne Offensive, First Phase 
On the day after we had taken the St. Mihiel salient, much 
of our corps and army artillery which had operated at St. 
Mihiel, and our divisions in reserve at other points, were 
already on the move toward the area back of the line between 
the Meuse River and the western edge of the forest of Argonnne. 
With the exception of St. Mihiel, the old German front line 
from Switzerland to the east of Rheims was still intact. In 
the general attack all along the line, the operation assigned 
the American Army as the hinge of this allied offensive was 
directed toward the important railroad communications of the 
German armies through Mezieres and Sedan. The enemy must 
hold fast to this part of his lines or the withdrawal of his 
forces with four years' accumulalion of plants and material 
would be dangerously imperiled. 

The German Army had as yet shown no demoralization, 
and, while the mass of its troops had suffered in morale, its 
first-class divisions, and notably its machine-gun defense, were 
exhibiting remarkable tactical efficiency as well as courage. The 
German General Staff was fully aware of the consequences of 
a success on the Meuse-.Argonne line. Certain that he would 
do everything in his power to oppose us, the action was planned 
with as much secrecy as possible and was undertaken with the 
determination to use all our divisions in forcing decision. We 
expected to draw the best German divisions to our front and 
to consume them while the enemy was held under grave appre- 
hension lest our attack should break his line, which it was our 
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The Road From Avocourt to Montfaucon 



Our righl flank was protected by the Meuse, while our 
left embraced the Argonne Forest, whose ravines, bills, and 
elaborate defense, screened by dense thickets, had been gen- 
erally considered impregnable. Our order of battle from right 
to left was the 3d Corps from the Meuse to Malancourt, with 
the 33d, 80th and 4th Divisions in line, and the 3d Division 
as corps reserve; the 5th Corps from Malancourt to Vauquois, 
with 79th, 37th and 9l3t Divisions in line, and the 32d in 
corps reserve, and the 1st Corps, from Vauquois to Vienne le 
Chateau, with 35th, 28th and 77th Divisions in line, and the 
92d in corps reserve. The army reserve consisted of the I st, 
29th and 82d Divisions. 

On the night of September 25lh our troops quietly took the 
place of the French who thinly held the line in this sector, 
which had long been inactive. In the attack which began on 
the 26th we drove through the barbed wire entanglements and 
the sea of shell craters across No Man's Land, mastering all 
the first-line defenses. Continuing on the 27th and 28lh, against 
machine guns and artillery of an increas:ng number of enemy 
reserve divisions, we penetrated to a depth of from three to 
seven miles and took the village of Montfaucon and its com- 
manding hill and Exermont, Gercourt, Cuisy, Septiarges, Malan- 
court, Ivoiry, Epinonville. Charpenlry, Very and other vil- 
lages. East of the Meuse one of our divisions, which was 
with the 2d Colonial French Corps, captured Marcheville and 
Rieville, giving further protection to the flank of our main body. 
We had taken 10,000 prisoners, we had gained our point of 
forcing the battle into the open, and were prepared for the 
enemy's reaction, which was bound to come, as he had good 
roads and ample railroad facilities for bringing up his artillery 
and reserves. 

In the chill rain of dark nights our engineers had to build 
new roads across spongy shell-torn areas, repair broken roads 
beyond No Man's Land, and build bridges. Our gunners, with 
no thought of sleep, put their shoulders to wheels and drag- 
ropes to bring their guns through the mire in support of the 
infantry, now under the increasing fire of the enemy's artillery. 
Our attack had taken the enemy by surprise, but, quickly recov- 
ing himself, he began to fire counter attacks in strong force. 



supported by heavy bombardmenis, with large quantities of gas. 
From September 28lh until October 4th we mamtained the offen- 
sive against patches of woods defended by snipers and continu- 
ous lines of machine guns, and pushed forward our guns and 
transport, seizing strategical points in preparation for further 
attacks. 

Other Units With Allies 

Other divisions attached to the allied armies were doing their 
part. It was the fortune of our 2d Corps, composed of the 27th 
and 30th Divisions, which had remained with the British, to 
have a place of honor in co-operation with the Australian Corps 
on September 29th and October 1st in the assault on the Hinden- 
burg Line where the St. Quentin Canal passes through a tunnel 
under a ridge. The 30lh Division speedily broke through the 
main line of defense for all its objectives, while the 27th 
pushed on impetuously through the main line until some of its 
elements reached Gouy. In the midst of the maze of trenches 
and shell craters and under crossfire from machine guns the 
other elements fought desperately against odds. In this and in 
later actions, from Oct. 6th (o Oct. 19th, our 2d Corps captured 
over 6,000 prisoners and advanced over thirteen miles. The 
spirit and aggressiveness of these divisions have been highly 
praised by the British Army commander under whom they 
served. 

On Oct. 2d-9th our 2d and 36lh Divisions were sent lo assist 
the French in an important attack against the old German 
positions before Rheims. The 2d conquered the complicated 
defense works on their front against a persistent defense worthy 
of the grimmest period of trench warfare and attacked the 
strongly held wooded hill of Blanc Mont, which they captured 
in a second assault, sweeping over it with consummate dash and 
skill. This division then repulsed strong counter attacks before 
the village and cemetery of Ste. Etienne and took the town, 
forcing the Germans to fall back from before Rheims and yield 
positions they had held since September. 1914. On Oct. 9th 
the 36th Division relieved the 2d. and in its first experience 
under fire withstood very severe artillery bombardment and rap- 
idly took up the pursuit of the enemy, now retiring behind the 
Aisne. 



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Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Second Phase 

The allied progress elsewhere cheered the efforts of our men 
in this crucial contest, as the German command threw in more 
and more first-class troops to slop our advance. We made 
steady headway in the almost impenetrable and strongly held 
Argonne Forest, for, despite this reinforcement, it was our army 
that was doing the driving. Our aircraft was increasing in 
skill and numbers and forcing the issue, and our infantry and 
artillery were improving rapidly with each new experience. 
The replacements fresh from home were put into exhausted 
divisions with little time for training, but they had the advan- 
tage of serving beside men who knew their business and who 
had almost become veterans overnight. The enemy had taken 
every advantage of the terrain, which especially favored the 
defense, by a prodigal use of machine guns manned by highly 
trained veterans and by using his artillery at short ranges. In 
the face of such strong frontal positions we should have been 
unable to accomplish any progress according to previously ac- 
cepted standards, but I had every confidence in our aggressive 
tactics and the courage of our troops. 

On Oct. 4th the attack was renewed all along our front. The 
3d Corps, lilting to the left, followed the Brieulies-Cunel road; 
our 5th Corps took Gesnes, while the 1st Corps advanced for 
over two miles along the irregular valley of the Aire River 
and in the wooded hills of the Argonne that bordered the river, 
used by the enemy with all his art and weapons of defense. 
This sort of fighting continued against an enemy striving to 
hold every fool of ground and whose very strong counter 
attacks challenged us at every point. On the 7th the 1st Corps 
captured Chatel-Chenery and continued along the river to 
Cornay. On the east of Meuse sector one of the two divisions, 
co-operating with the French, captured Consenvoye and the 
Haumont Woods. On the 9th the 5th Corps, in its progress 
up the Aire, took Fleville, and the 3d Corps, which had con- 
tinuous fighting against odds, was working its way through 
Brieulles and Cunel. On the lOlh we had cleared the 
Argonne Forest of the enemy. 

It was now necessary to constitute a second army, and on 
Oct. 9th the immediate command of the First Army was turned 
over to Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett. The command of the 
Second Army, whose divisions occupied a sector in the Woevre, 
was given lo Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Bullard. who had been 
commander of the 1st Division and then of the 3d Corps. 
Major Gen. Dickman was transferred to the command of the 
1st Corps, while the 5lh Corps was placed under Major Gen. 
Charles P. Summerall, who had recently commanded the 1st 
Division. Major Gen. John L. Hines, who had gone rapidly 
up from regimental to division commander, was assigned to 
the 3d Corps. These four officers had been in France from 
the early days of the expedition and had learned their lessons 
in the school of practical warfare. 

Our constant pressure against the enemy brought day by day 
more prisoners, mostly survivors from machine-gun nests cap- 
tured in fighting at close quarters. On Oct. 18th there was 
very fierce fighting in the Caures Woods east of the Meuse 
and in the Ormont Woods. On the 14lh the 1st Corps look 
St. Juvin, and the 5th Corps, in hand-Io-hand encounters, en- 
tered the formidable Kriemhilde line, where the enemy had 
hoped to check us indefinitely. Later the 5th Corps penetrated 



further into the Kriemhilde line, and the 1st Corps took Cham- 
pigneulles and the important town of Grandpre. Our dogged 
offensive was wearing down the enemy, who continued des- 
perately to throw his best troops against us, thus weakening his 
line in front of our allies and making their advance less difficult. 

Divisions in Belgium 
Meanwhile we were not only able to continue the battle, but 
our 37th and 91st Divisions were haUily withdrawn from our 
front and dispatched lo help the French Army in Belgium. 
Detraining in the neighborhood of Ypres, these divisions ad- 
vanced by rapid stages to the fighting line and were assigned 
to adjacent French corps. On October 31st, in continuation of 
the Flanders offensive, they attacked and methodically broke 
down all enemy resistance. On Nov. 3d the 37th had completed 
its mission in driving the enemy across the Escaut River and 
firmly established itself along the east bank included in the 
division zone of action. By a clever flanking movement troops 
of the 9 1st Division captured Spitaals Bosschen, a difficult 
wood extending across the central part of the division sector, 
reached the Escaut, and penetrated into the town of Aude- 
narde. These divisions received high commendation from their 
corps commanders for their dash and energy. 

Meuse-Argonne, Last Phase 
On the 23d the 3d and 5th Corps pushed northward to the 
level of Bantheville. While we continued lo press forward and 
throw back the enemy's violent counter attacks with great loss 
to him, a regrouping of our forces was under way for the final 
assault. Evidences of loss of morale by the enemy gave our 
men more confidence in attack and more fortitude m enduring 
the fatigue of incessant effort and the haidships of very inclement 
weather. 

With comparatively well-rested divisions, the final advance 
m the Meuse-Argonne front was begun on November 1st. Our 
increased artillery force acquitted itself magnificently in support 
of the advance, and the enemy broke before the determined 
infantry, which, by its persistent fighting of the past weeks and 
the dash of this attack, had overcome his will to resist. The 
3d Corps took Ancreville, Doulcon and Andevanne, and the 
5th Corps took Landres et St. Georges and passed through 
successive lines of resistance to Bayonville and Chennery. On 
the 2d the 1st Corps joined in the movement, which now became 
an impetuous onslaught that could not be stayed. 

On the 3d advance troops surged forward in pursuit, some 
by motor trucks, while the artillery pressed along the country 
roads close behind. The 1 st Corps reached Authe and Cha- 
tillon-Sur-Bar, the 5th Corps, Fosse and Nouart, and the 3d 
Corps, Halles, penetrating the enemy's line to a depth of twelve 
miles. Our large-caliber guns had advanced and were skil- 
fully brought into position lo fire upon the important lines 2t 
Montmedy, Longuyon and Confians. Our 3d Corps crossed 
the Meuse on the 5th and the other corps in the full confidence 
that the day was theirs, eagerly cleared the way of machine 
guns as they swept northward, maintaining complete co-ordina- 
tion throughout. On the 6lh, a division of the 1st Corps reached 
a point on the Meuse opposite Sedan, tv/enly five miles from 
our line of departure. The strategical goal which was our 
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of communications, and nolhing but surrender or an armistice 
could save his army from complete disaster. 

In all forty enemy divisions had been used agamst us in 
the Meuse-Argonne battle. Between September 26th and No- 
vember 6th we took 26,059 prisoners and 468 guns on this front. 
Our divisions engaged were the 1st, 2d, 3d. 4th, 5th, 26th, 
28th, 29th. 32d, 33d. 35th, 37ih, 42d, 77th. 78th, 79th, 80th, 
82d. 89th, 90th and 91st. Many of our divisions remained in 
line for a length of time that required nerves of steel, while 
others were sent in again after only a few days of rest. The 
Isl, 5th, 26th, 77th, 80th. 89lh and 90th were in the line twice. 
Although some of the divisions were fighting their first battle, 
ihey soon became equal to the best. 

Operations East of the Meuse 

On the three days preceding November 10, the 3d, the 2d 
Colonial and the 1 7th French Corps fought a difficult struggh 
through the Meuse hills south of Stenay and forced the enemy 
into the plain. Meanwhile my plans for further use of the 
American forces contemplated an advance between the Meuse 
and the Moselle in the direction of Longwy by the First Army. 
while, at the same time, the Second Army should assure the 
offensive toward the rich coal fields of Briey. These operations 
were to be followed by an offensive toward Chaleau-Salins 
east of the Moselle, thus isolating Metz. Accordingly, attacks 
on the American front had been ordered, and that of the 
Second Army was in progress on the morning of November 
II, when instructions were received that hostilities should cease 
at 1 1 o'clock A.M. 

At this moment the line of the American sector, from right 
to left, began at Port-sur-Sellle, thence across the Moselle to 
Vandieres and through the Woevre to Bezonvaux, in the foot- 
hills of the Meuse, thence along to the foothills and through 
the northern edge of the Woevre forests to the Meuse at 
Mouzay, thence along the Meuse connecting with the French 

under Sedan. 

Relations With the Allies 

Co-operation among the Allies has at all times been most 
cordial. A far greater effort has been put forth by the allied 
armies and staffs to assist us than could have been expected. 
The French government and army have always stood ready 
lo furnish us with supplies, equipment and transportation and 
to aid us in every way. In the towns and hamlets wherever 
our troops have been stationed or billeted the French people 
have everywhere received them more as relatives and Intimate 
friends than as soldiers for a foreign army. For these things 
words are quite inadequate to express our gratitude. There 
can be no doubt that the relations growing out ol our associa- 
tions here assure a permanent friendship between the two peo- 
ples. Although we have not been so intimately associated with 
the people of Great Britain, yet their troops and ours when 
thrown together have always warmly fraternized. The recep- 
tion of those of our forces who have passed through England 
and of those who have been stationed there has always been 
enthusiastic. Altogether it has been deeply impressed upon us 
that the ties of language and blood bring the British and our- 
selves together completely and inseparably. 

Strength 
There are in Europe altogether, including a regiment and 
some sanitary units with the Italian Army and the organizations 




Forward Observing Post, 115th Field Artillery 

This observation post was established in the ruins of Mont- 
faucon, the highest point in all the Argonne country, Lieut. 
Samuel G. Anspach being placed in charge of it. From this 
position he directed much of the fire by the regiment on 
Cierges, Cunel, Romagne and the roads and forests in thai 
sector. The hill of Montfaucon was almost continuously under 
heavy shell fire by the German guns. 

This fort was connected with regimental headquarters by 
telephone. 




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at Murmansk, also including those en route from the Slates, 
approximately 2,053,347 men, less our losses. Of this total 
there are in France 1,338,169 combatant troops. Forty divisions 
have arrived, of which (he infantry personnel of ten have been 
used as replacements, leaving thirty divisions now in France 
organized inio three armies of three corps each. 

The losses of the Americans up to November 18th are: 
Killed and wounded 36,145; died of disease, 14,811; deaths 
unclassified, 2,204; wounded, 179,625; prisoners, 2,163; miss- 
ing, 1,160. We have captured about 44,000 prisoners and 
1,400 guns, howitzers and trench moitars. 

In the Woe\re Sector 

The three regiments of the brigade were without 
sufficient horses to make the movement to the Tyron 
sector, the northwest coiner of the St. Mihiel salient, 
and the trucks of the 105th Ammunition Train had 
to assist. 

On October 7th the forward batteries were with- 
drawn to the vicinity of Avocourt, where the regi- 
mental echelon had been maintained since the break- 
ing of the lines, and, on the following day General 
Fleming relinquished command of the brigade and 
Colonel Berry assumed charge until General Kilbreth 
reported. 

On the 8th the brigade assembled about Recicourt, 
which town was heavily bombarded by Germ.in air- 
planes during the night, and much damage done, al- 
though there were only a few casualties, none in the 
brigade. 

Assisted by the Ammunition Train trucks, the regi- 
ment moved to its new positions near St. Remy, to 
the northeast of Tryon, which is on the Verdun-Toui 
road, about half way between Verdun and St. Mihiel. 
The regimental command post was at a German en- 
gineering dump in the dense Bois de St. Remy, on the 
Grande Tranchee. 

The regiment on October lOth-lith relieved the 
103d Field Artillery of the 5ist Brigade and 26th 
Division, commanded by Colonel Glassford. While 
making the relief the roads and back areas were 
heavily shelled by the Germans, and the 103d suf- 
fered several casualties, although the batteries of the 
1 15th moved into position and executed their sched- 
ule of firing without loss or damage of any kind. 

This sector was held by the 79th Division, Na- 
tional Army from Pennsylvania, Maryland and the 
District of Columbia. The 33d Division, Illinois 
National Guard, relieved the 79th, and the brigade 
remaining in the sector went under the command of 



the 33d, and continued with it until the signing of the 
armistice and the march into Luxemburg. 

The sector may have been a quiet one before the 
I I 5th F. A. arrived, but after its advent it developed 
into a very active one. In this sector the regiment 
fired more rounds of ammunition than it did altogether 
in both the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. 
In these two great battles the American forces had 
been on the offensive. Here in the Troyon, or Woevre 
sector, it was position warfare, a class of fighting that 
required the highest degree of technical training and 
painstaking calculations and precise execution. It was 
a new adventure for the regiment. But the batteries 
made gocd in this as they did in every mission as- 
signed to them. 

The American forces held the heights of the Meuse, 
a system of wooded ridges which projected south and 
east from Verdun, and overlooked the broad valley 
or plain of the Woevre. There were no well-defined 
lines or trenches, but the infantry troops occupied a 
series of ruined villages, with the line of resistance 
along the base of the precipitous slopes that dropped 
from the woodlands to the plain. The Germans oc- 
cupied other ruined villages, but at the further side 
of the plain they had a most thoroughly organized 
trench system and vast quantities of artillery in the 
forests to the rear of their line of resistance. These 
were the outer defenses of Metz, Briey and Conflans, 
and the railroad line from Conflans to Etain. 

From the heights of the Meuse, where the regi- 
mental observation stations were situated, over thirty- 
seven ruined villages could be seen on a clear day, 
and the chimneys and smoke from the factories and 
great iron works at Metz and Briey were clearly dis- 
tinguishable. 

It was here that the enemy expected the attack upon 
Metz to be launched, and never for a moment did 
the Bosche cease to fear this movement nor did he 
overlook any precaution towards being prepared to 
meet it should it develop. Always he had massed 
here sufficient infantry to hold the advance and artil- 
lery enough to make it unpleasant for the attackers. 

Beginning immediately after taking over from the 
103d Field Artillery, the regiment entered upon a 
period of active firing that lasted until the morning 
of the armistice. In addition to counter battery work, 
reprisal fire and O. C. P.'s, it supported the troops 
of the 33d Division in three distinct raids on Ger- 



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The Ruined Village of St. Remy 



man positions, all of which were successful, and was 
engaged in the general attack of the Second Army on 
the morning of November I I th. 

Not a day or night passed without firing by some, 
and, frequently all of the batteries of the regiment. 
On clear days the batteries fired for registration, the 
plain being well adapted for precision adjustment and 
observation from the vantage points on the heights 
of the Meuse being excellent. Some adjusting was 
done with airplanes. Much moving and shifting of 
platoons and batteries was done, as German planes 
were over repeatedly taking photographs, and a bat- 
tery once located was made most uncomfortable when 
the data secured by the German planes was put to use 
in firing upon its position. Roving guns were sent 
down the tortuous and precipitous roads to the plam 
itself, secreted during the day in ruined villages and 
orchards and put into position at night, and fired 
upon enemy batteries and important crossroads, am- 
munition and supply dumps and laagers. The plain 
was so open and there was so little of cover outside 
the villages, to occupy which was to court disaster, 
that it was impracticable to do any firing during the 
day. 

On October 1 7th Private Ed Evans, of Battery 
B, was killed by the explosion of a German hand 
grenade. He had entered a dugout in the old Ger- 
man trenches near the regimental headquarters to get 
a stove for his dugout. Some of his companions were 
with him, and as he attempted to come up the in- 
clined stairway to the trench the lower step blew up 
and killed him instantly. From an examination made 
after the accident it was determined that he had been 
killed by a hand grenade secreted beneath the step. 



The step itself had broken under his weight, and it 
may have been that the grenade had been carelessly 
left there and would not have exploded except for the 
breaking of the step. 

The region, however, was thickly strewn with traps. 
A number of them were discovered and destroyed by 
men of the regiment. They were nearly all of the 
same character. A pack of German hand grenades 
of the "potato masher" variety were bound together 
and secreted in a shell hole. A cord or invisible wire 
was stretched across a path and fastened to a bush 
or stake. Any one tripping over the wire would set 
off the mine. 

On two occasions after the regiment came into this 
sector orders were issued for the brigade to move 
into the big battle that was in progress to the east 
of the Meuse River, north of Verdun, but each time 
it was found impracticable to move, as the regiments 
were short of horses and none were obtainable. The 
regiment had arrived at the front with more than 
1 ,200 horses. One by one they had gone down, 
been killed, died or evacuated, until now the regi- 
ment had less than 350 horses, and many of them 
not fit for service. The light regiments, although their 
guns and caissons were nothing like as difficult to draw 
as the heavier material of the I 15th, were in the same 
plight. To move the brigade without issue of many 
hundreds of horses was entirely out of the question. 

The territory occupied by the regiment was within 
the lines held by the Germans before the St. Mihiel 
salient was wiped out, and it was well supplied with 
shelters and dugouts and narrow gauge railroads. The 
bad feature of it was that the enemy knew to the 
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it was an easy matter for accurate fire to be delivered 
by him on any crossroad or shelter at will. 

Regimental headquarters was near the intersection 
of the Grand Tranchee de Calonne and the Troyon- 
Vaux-St. Remy road, a pomt most favored by the 
Germans for dropping shells at night. That there 
were so few casualties in the regiment was phenomenal, 
as shells were always falling somewhere in the back 
areas and on the positions occupied by the batteries. 

At the time of moving into the sector the front was 
approximately an irregular line, running through the 
ruined and abandoned towns of ManheuUes, Fresnes- 
en-Woevre, Wadonville, Doncourt-aux-Templiers. 
These towns were held by the American troops and 
the Germans occupied Pintheville, Riaville, Marche- 
ville, St. Hilaire and Butgneville and the villages to 
the north of these, which formed a more or less ragged 
line opposite the American positions. 

Wherever a soldier showed himself in one of the 
villages or on the plain during the day he drew artil- 
lery fire. The German artillery was always on the 
job, and when the American artillery sent over a few 
shells they were always returned with interest. All 
of the batteries came in for good shellings, but A and 
B Batteries were especially singled out. Throughout 
the war-diary kept by the regiment are entries like 
this of October 31st: "A Battery fired thirty-five 
rounds harassing fire with good results. B Battery 
fired fifty rounds on Marchville at nineteenth hour. 
Battalion position (1st Battalion) heavily shelled in 
area around P. C, forty-four rounds gas, I 50 rounds 
high explosive. Two infantrymen killed and six 
severely wounded by direct hit within 100 meters of 
battalion kitchen. D Battery fired twenty rounds at 
1 :30 o'clocL" 

On November 7th a very heavy fire was put down 
by the enemy on the positions of A and B Batteries. 
A suffered twelve men gassed and B had eight gas 
casualties. A horse in A Battery was killed. It is 
estimated that over 1 ,000 shells were put on A Bat- 
tery's gun positions. One shell made a direct hit in 
the entrance of a dugout occupied by one of the bat- 
tery's gun crews. It seems marvelous, but not a man 
was killed and none were wounded to any serious 
extent. As a return for the German shelling, F Bat- 
tery sent over ninety-seven and E Battery I 1 I rounds 
of 155 shells. 

The next day A and B Batteries got in the game 
good and strong. They had a grudge to settle for 



their gas casualties. Battery A fired 232 rounds, 
beginning at 4:20 A.M., and Battery B sent over 156 
rounds. Most of this fire was on Marchville. Heavy 
firing was done by all of the batteries from early in 
November until the armistice. The regiment assisted 
m three raids made by the 33d Division, all of which 
were successful. 

The night before the armistice, November 1 0th- 
1 1th, A and B Batteries were moved down upon the 
plain, and on the morning of the 11th they were 
in position out in the bare fields between Herbeville 
and Wadonville. The morning was misty, and that 
is all that saved them from utter destruction, as they 
had nothing of protection and less of concealment. 
The infantry made a general attack that morning and 
suffered a number of casualties, with thirty or forty 
men killed in our immediate front. The attack was 
planned for the I 4th, three days later, and additional 
artillery was moving up to assist in the advance. The 
armistice broke up the plan. Some one, somewhere, 
could not resist the temptation to launch the Second 
Army into a premature and improperly supported bat- 
tle; for what reason in not clear, unless it was that 
the Second Army, as an army, wanted to wind up its 
short existence with credit for a general attack in a 
big drive. 

The Armistice Comes 

The ! I th of November brought peace to the front. 
It was staggering, unbelievable. When the guns 
ceased to fire and over the long line of sweltering, 
struggling men and machines, from the North Sea to 
the Alps, there settled the calm and quiet of a coun- 
try Sunday morning, in which men might walk abroad 
without fear of sudden death, it seemed unreal. The 
Germans kept up a desultory firing until the stroke of 
1 I o'clock. They played the game to the last mo- 
ment. At one minute before the hour those who ex- 
posed themselves drew fire from Bosche machine guns, 
rifles and artillery. At one minute after not a shot 
was to be heard. 

The American attack had been at daylight, with 
a rolling barrage from the light guns and the heavies 
pounding away at Marchville, Maizeray, Harville, 
Riaville and the other towns held by the Germans 
on the plain of the Woevre. At 8:00 o'clock the 
American artillery had been given orders to cease 
firing. Just on the stroke of eleven some enterpris- 
ing individual in one of the light regiments of the 
brigade, desiring to qualify for the first and last club 



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Salvage Details Cleaning Up the Wreckage 



by delivering the final shot of the war, pulled the 
string and the vicious little 75 barked its last yelp of 
defiance against the vanquished enentiy. 

The war was over. Those who had not endured 
the strain and stress and hardships of active service, 
may not know just what those four words meant to the 
men at the front. No human tongue can tell it, nor 
can human language express just what were the sen- 
sations of the soldiers who had survived the campaign. 
What visions of home and loved ones. What relief 
and yet what of disappointment that the victorious 
armies of the Allies were not allowed to sweep on- 
ward to a complete military decision. 

When official information was received that the 
armistice had been signed and orders came from divi- 
sional headquarters to "Cease Firing," an attack was 
actually under way and our infantry were advancing 
across the open plain under machme gun and artillery 
fire. The artillery received their orders over the 
telephone to cease firing, but the troops making the 
attack were called back by the bugle, which sounded 
the "Recall." Our regimental wireless had picked 
up sufficient intercepted messages during the early 
hours of the morning to make it absolutely certain that 
the armistice had been signed at 5 o'clock that morn- 
ing; and the fact that the prearranged attack was 
launched after the armistice had been signed and the 
knowledge of same must have been had at army head- 
quarters, caused sharp criticism of the high command 
on the part of the troops engaged, who considered the 
loss of American lives that morning as useless and lit- 
tle short of murder. 

At the time that the order for "Cease Firing" was 
received, orders were also sent down that every man 



would remain at his post, ready for any emergency. 
Additional orders were also received that there must 
be no demonstration in the American Army to cele- 
brate the end of hostilities, and that fraternizing with 
the enemy would be strictly forbidden. The order 
against fraternization was the only one of the three 
that was not strictly observed, and that may have 
been due to the fact that it was delayed in being 
made known to the troops in the front line. At ex- 
actly I I o'clock every gun on the front became silent, 
and it was not many minutes before soldiers of both 
armies came out of their nests and dugouts and strolled 
around in what had just ceased to be "No-Man's 
Land." 

In the village of Marchville, both American and 
German troops were stationed, the former holding the 
western edge and the latter the eastern edge of the 
town. Immediately after the armistice both German 
and American burial parties were searching the same 
field, and soldiers of both armies were soon gathered 
in small groups in the streets of the village, exchang- 
ing souvenirs and various other articles. When the 
noon meal was served at the American kitchen Ger- 
man soldiers were seen eating out of the same mess- 
kits with the Americans. The Germans craved the 
white bread that was served to the Americans, and 
were willing to part with anything they had in ex- 
change for American bread. 

This town of Marchville was held by troops of 
the 365th Prussian Infantry. The commander of this 
detachment lodged a complaint with Colonel Berry 
that the American Infantry had entered the town after 
I I o'clock in violation of the terms of the armistice. 
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spoke English well and was decorated with the Iron 
Cross. He explained that he was expecting orders 
to withdraw during the afternoon, but up to that time 
his orders were to hold his ground, and he did not 
want to lay hinfiself liable to trial for failure to obey 
his orders. The matter was finally adjusted by agree- 
ing upon a line of demarcation between the American 
and German forces. This Captain, in conversation 
with Colonel Berry, remarked that the American at- 
tack of that morning was a very "foolish" affair and 
a useless waste of life. He further said that he had 
realized for some weeks that the end of the war was 
not far off, and seeing the uselessness of further sac- 
rifice he had taken no unnecessary chances with the 
lives of his men. When asked his views on the terms 
of the armistice, he replied that he had already called 
his men together and explained the onerous burdens 
imposed on the Fatherland by the terms of the armis- 
tice, but he added that Germany was powerless to 
resist longer, and if the German authorities had not 
signed the terms offered that the soldiers would have 
quit the field anyway. 

Another strongly fortified town in our front was 
Butgneville, to which the enemy retreated when driven 
out of St. Hilaire on the 9th. This town war held 
by the troops of the 439th Bavarian Regiment. An 
officer of our regiment went with a burial party from 
the 66th American Infantry Brigade to inquire at the 
German outpost what had become of some American 
doughboys who had fallen wounded within the Ger- 
man lines in the first attack on St. Hilaire, which took 
place several days before. An intelligent Sergeant 
commanded the outpost, and he explained that the 
wounded men had been well cared for and had been 
sent to a German hospital about fifteen miles behind 
the lines. He also pointed out the location of the 
graves of the Americans who had lost their lives with- 
in the German lines in the fighting within that point. 
This Bavarian Sergeant remarked in the course of the 
conversation that he had an aunt living in Chicago, 
and that he intended to emigrate to America and make 
Chicago his home just as soon as possible after the 
war. 

The scene that one witnessed at St. Hilaire im- 
mediately after I I o'clock on November I I th was 
probably re-enacted in hundreds of other places along 
the battle line. As scon as the guns ceased to roar 
the ambulances boldly drove out on the field and 
picked up the wounded at the dressing stations. A 



chaplain and a burial party were at work getting to- 
gether the dead, and along the highway, side by side, 
lay the bodies of twenty-six doughboys waiting to be 
carried off in trucks to their last resting place. 

In front of our machine gun defenses at Wadon- 
ville lay nineteen dead Germans, whose swollen bodies 
and blackened faces indicated that they had been 
killed many days. The Lieutenant in charge of the 
post explained that three weeks previously the Ger- 
mans had attempted a raid on his post, but that his 
machine guns had stopped that raid and killed the 
Huns, who still lay where they had fallen. He said 
that he preferred to view day after day the ghastly 
spectacle and to smell the stench than to take a chance 
on having some of his men killed while trying to bury 
the fallen foe. 

Indeed, war is a gruesome game, and there was 
not an American on the front who was not happy 
when he heard that the armistice had been signed. 

The orders against any form of demonstration was 
strictly observed by the Americans, but the Germans 
gave expression to their feelings by sending up the 
grandest pyrotechnic display that has ever been staged 
in the history of the world. As soon as the dark- 
ness fell upon the field the Germans commenced to 
send up rockets and flares of all colors and forms, 
and in numbers beyond belief. This continued until 
late into the night, and the thunder of the guns which 
had formerly shaken the battlefield was now replaced 
by a depressing silence. So with the American lines 
presenting a black and sullen appearance, and the 
German lines illuminated by pyrotechnics from Switz- 
erland to the sea, the curtain dropped on the greatest 
tragedy that the world has ever seen. 

On the afternoon of the I I th a German officer, 
dressed in the full dress uniform of his rank and ac- 
companied by an orderly, rode up to our lines and 
asked to be conducted to the headquarters of the 
33d Division. He had with him a map of the terrain 
in front of our sector on which had been charted the 
location of the tank mines, which had been planted to 
stop the general attack which had been planned for 
the 14th. The terms of the armistice required that 
the location of all of these mines be immediately 
disclosed. 

In Pans and London and the other cities of the 
Allies there was great rejoicing. In Paris the news 
arrived about 10:00 o'clock on the morning of the 
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o'clock. The people did not seem to comprehend. 
Not until M. Clemenceau and Marshal Foch in per- 
son confirmed it did the populace really believe the 
good news. Then there began such a celebration as 
the capital of France has never seen before. Stores 
were closed and traffic was absolutely impossible in 
the streets and boulevards. From building to build- 
ing in all the wide thoroughfares, masses of human 
beings swarmed. It was a happy crowd, but there 
was none of the noise or hilarity that characterized 
the demonstration in the American cities. Through- 
out the day and mght of the 1 1 th, the 1 2th and 
the night thereof, the happy people of Paris walked 
and walked and walked, in couples and threes and 
long snakes, holding hands, wriggling through the 
masses of people, forming circles and dancing about 
the American soldiers and officers, and only breaking 
ranks when the dance was finished, while each girl 
in the dance put up her cheek to be kissed by the 
husky Yankees. On the night of the 12th the street 
lights were turned on for the first time in almost four 
years. The Americans were especially singled out 
for attention. There was no doubting that the French 
people were grateful and were willing to show that 
they really thought that the soldiers from over the sea 
were their deliverers. Any American in Paris that 
day was a hero. 

The roster of officers in the 1 15th F. A., with as- 
signment and duties, on November I I th, the date of 
the cessation of hostilities, was as follows: 

FIELD AND STAFF 

Col. Harry S. Berry, commanding. 

Lieut. -Col. William J. Bacon, second in command. 

Maj. John H. Milam, commanding 3d Battalion. 

Maj. Robert M. Milam, commanding 1 st Bat- 
talion. 

Maj. Hugh B. Hooper, commanding 2d Battalion. 

Capt. Max C. McKay, Personnel Adjutant. 

Capt. William J. Apperson, Adjutant and Opera- 
tions Officer. 

Capt. Otis W. Dresslar, Adjutant 1st Battalion. 

Capt. J. George Dobie, Adjutant 2d Battalion. 

Capt. Hugh E. Buckingham, Adjutant 3d Bat- 
talion. 

HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

Capt. Edward B. Sweeney, D. S., attending Army 
School of the Line at Langres, France. 

Capt. Charles L. Neely, commanding company. 



I St Lieut, Fred P. Lunda, Telephone Officer, I st 
Battalion. 

I st Lieut. Charles T. McMurray, sick in hospital, 
gassed during Argonne Offensive, Regimental Tele- 
phone Offier. 

1st Lieul. Grantland Rice, D. S.. with Stars and 
Stripes. 

1st Lieut. Harold E. Morrison, Regimental Radio 
Officer. 

2d Lieut. Harry M. Woodward, Acting Regi- 
mental Telephone Officer. 

2d Lieut. William R. Copeland, Acting Regi- 
mental Intelligence Officer. 

2d Lieut. Foster Milliken, Jr., Telephone Officer, 
2d Battalion. 

2d Lieut. Harrison L. Taylor, duty with company. 

2d Lieut. Murray C. Bernays, duty with company. 

2d Lieut. Frank Lockett, duty with company. 

2d Lieut. Claude N. Dye. duty with company. 

2d Lieut. Frank R. Bell, duty with company. 

2d Lieut. Charles F. Sanborn, Battalion Intelli- 
gence Officer. 

2d Lieut. Robert D. Frick, Battalion Intelligence 
Officer. 

2d Lieut. Herbert K. Laramore, Battalion Intel- 
ligence Officer. 

SUPPLY COMPANY 

Capt. Ray C. Reeves, Unit Supply Officer, com- 
manding. 

1st Lieut. Leo C. Tobin, D. S., with 83d Division. 
1st Lieut. Thomas G. Bard. 

2d Lieut. Ernest G. Hartley. 

2d Lieut. Thomas H. Calvert, Regimental Muni- 
tions Officer. 

BATTERY A 

Capt. John D. Key, commanding. 

1st Lieut. Jules B. Rozier. 

1 st Lieut. Norman Penney. 

2d Lieut. Noel B. Keeler. 

2d Lieut. Vivian K. Mouser, Battalion Munitions 

Officer. 

BATTERY B 

Capt. Amos E. Shirley, commanding. 

1st Lieut. Maurice E. Thorne. 

2d Lieut. Dudley R. Patterson. 

2d Lieut. Rush H. Damuth. 

BATTERY C 
Capt. Wallace W. Riddick, commanding. 
1st Liuet. Richard B. Hager, Reg. Gas Officei 



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2d Lieut. John R. Boersma, Battalion Munitions 
Officer. 

2d Lieut. John Johnson. 

BATTERY D 
I St Lieut. John F. Robertson, commandnig. 
I st Lieut. Erskine D. Maiden, Jr. 
2d Lieut. William S. Lyon. 
2d Lieut. Roland D. Hall. 

BATTERY E 
Capt. Innis Brown, sick in hospital, wounded in 
Argonne. 

1st Lieut. Allan L. Campbell, commanding. 
1st Lieut. Matthew J. Reynolds. 
1 St Lieut. Horace D. Payne. 
2d Lieut. Edward J. Roxbury. 
2d Lieut. George M. Schwartz. 

BATTERY F 
Capt. Andrew J. Donelson. commandmg. 
1st Lieut. George W. Brown. 

2d Lieut. Howard N. Scharff. Battalion Munitions 
Officer. 

2d Lieut. Aura R. Bradley. 

UNASSIGNED OFFICERS 
2d Lieut. Thomas S. Parker, Aerial Observer. 
2d Lieut. Herbert B. Hudnut. Aerial Observer. 

ORDNANCE DETACHMENT 
Capt. Thomas S. Orr. Unit Ordnance Officer, 
commanding. 

SANITARY DETACHMENT 
Maj. Buford N. Dunavant, D. S., with 83d Divi- 
sion. 

1st Lieut. Charles A. Bender, commanding. 
1st Lieut. Isaac R. Wagner, Ast. Reg. Surgeon. 
1st Lieut. George A. Harrison, Ast. Reg. Surgeon. 
1 st Lieut. William S. Hughes, Reg. Veterinarian. 

CHAPLAIN 
1st Lieut. Robert B. Street. 

During the latter part of the month of October it 
was evident to all that the war was about over. 
Leaves were restored. The rule in the A. E. t* . was 
that each man and officer should be entitled to seven 
days and travel time every four months. Up to this 
time only week-end leaves had been granted, while 
the regiment was at the training camp, and most of 
these were spent at Rennes. A number of men and 
officers now availed themselves of the privilege, the 
officers going to Niece and the men to leave areas. 



By the 1 st of October there was betting that the 
war would be over before Christmas, with few takers. 

The Regiment Motorized 

Shortly after the armistice the regiment was ordered 
to turn all of its horses and harness over to the I 1 3th 
and I 1 4th, and turn in all of its wheeled transportation 
except rolling kitchens and water carts. This was 
joyful news, as it was believed that it meant the mo- 
torization of the regiment, but as per schedule, it only 
meant more confusion and more work and more hard- 
ships for the men. 

The motor equipment of the 35 1 st Artillery, the 
heavy regiment of the 92d Division, was to be given 
the regiment, and details of men and officers were 
sent to the billeting area of the 92d Division, near 
Nancy, to take over and bring back to the regimental 
echelon, near Troyon, this motor equipment. There 
were visions of stable police being displaced by joy- 
rides and dreams of the ending of all the worries of 
the regimental commander and supply officers, with 
the acquisition of an abundance of transportation, 
something that had been woefully lacking throughout 
the service at the front. 

The regiment, when it was changed into artillery 
back at Camp Sevier in September, 1917, had been 
designated as horse-drawn and was to have been 
equipped with six-inch American howitzers. Later, 
by orders from the War Department, it was changed 
to motor-drawn, necessitating a shake-up in the en- 
listed personnel and a getting rid of a great many men 
in the regiment, who knew all about horses, by trad- 
ing them off to the light regiments for motor mechanics. 

After arriving in France the regiment was again 
changed back to horse-drawn and horses were issued 
and taken to the front with it and used throughout 
its active service. The heavy regiment didn't have 
any worse luck with its horses than did the light ones, 
which was remarkable, considering that the 155 
howitzers are so much heavier and more awkward to 
handle than the 75's, and, for true horse-killers, the 
155 caisson has the entire world beat. It must have 
been invented by some enemy of France for the pur- 
pose of rendering immobile the six-inch regiments by 
killing off all their horses. 

The best horsemen of the regiment had been sent 
to the 1 1 3th and 1 I 4th regiments, and mechanics and 
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Regimental Band at Le Mans 



wherever possible, so the regiment was in truly a bad 
way when it was given some 1,200 horses, some of 
them stallions with dispositions that would put Old 
Nick to shame. There was no chance to get these 
men back, and requisitions put in for specialists here- 
tofore had been such cruel jokes that it was not at- 
tempted again. 

Now, after the fighting was over, and after we 
had again stripped ourselves of mechanics and auto- 
mobile experts, and had trained the men in the care 
and management of horses, the motor equipment of 
the 92d Division was turned over. It was in bad 
condition, much of it. Of the twenty-four tractors, 
four were out of commission and one of them had 
to be junked to get parts to repair the other three, as 
there were apparently no repair parts in France, or, at 
least, none were procurable from any source that the 
regimental supply officer could discover. Later on, dur- 
ing the march into Luxemburg and back to the starting 
point, another tractor had to be wrecked for the same 
good cause. Thus two valuable tractors, worth prob- 
ably $10,000 each, were junked for the sake of spare 
parts that were worth probably a total of $150 alto- 
gether. 

On paper, the motor equipment of a regiment of 
heavy artillery is most lavish and apparently sufficient. 
It consists of a total of 345 motor-driven vehicles. 
The equipment actually turned over by the 92d to- 
talled sixty-six, and immediately one of the staff cars 
and one of the motorcycles were taken from the regi- 



ment by Brigade Headquarters for use of the Brigade 
Staff and messengers, leaving the regiment a total of 
sixty-four out of an authorized 345 vehicles, or a 
total of 281 vehicles short. 

Below is given the motor equipment for a 155- 
m-m howitzer regiment, under Table I 7, Series A, 
with that actually issued to this regiment and shortages. 

Authorized Issued Short 

Ambulances, molor 3 3 

Cars, molor, 5 -passenger 13 3 10 

Cars, motor staff observation 10 2 8 

Cars, reconnaissance 6 2 4 

Motorcycles, side cars 110 7 103 

Tractors, Ord. 2J/2 tons 10 10 

Tractors, Ord. 5-ton 60 23 37 

Trucks, cargo 16 2 14 

Trucks, ammunition 95 23 72 

Trucks, artillery repair 3 1 2 

Trucks, repair, light 1 1 

Trucks, supply 13 2 II 

Trucks, tank 3 3 

Truck, telephone I I 

Truck, wireless 1 1 

Total 345 66 279 

With this insufficient and totally inadequate equip- 
ment the 115th Field Artillery marched from St. 
Remy, in the Verdun sector, all the way to the Mo- 
zelle River at Remich, Luxemburg, and then turned 
about and marched right back to Lucey, within a 
stone's throw of its starting point, altogether consum- 
ing a total of twenty-one days of actual travel on the 
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insufficient that the few trucks had to make two trips 
daily and sometimes three, and, rarely, four round 
trips from the morning's starting place to the point for 
the night's halt, frequently not completing the last load 
until long after midnight. The tractors were over- 
worked, too, as many of them had to pull two guns, 
or a gun and a disabled truck. Just how the march 
was ever accomplished is a mystery. There was no 
assistance from those higher up, as the general officers 
seemed much more seriously concerned that there 
should be no mud upon the trucks, and that no equip- 
ment should be hung upon them, than they did for 
the comfort or welfare of the men. In fact, the 
march driveled into a peace-time maneuver, with all 
its petty worries and small criticisms and complaints 
and inspectors swarming about seeking whom they 
might confound and humiliate. It was almost enough 
to make Bolsehviki out of the entire brigade. TTie 
I 1 5th hobbled along like a crippled duck, limping 
from town to town, the motor column going as one 
scattered unit and the men on foot as another, neces- 
sitating passing and repassing and doubling back and 
double-banking and all other sorts of worrysome and 
troublesome expediencies. Tractors would break 
down and trucks would stall and get off the road 
and turn over. The regiment was afflicted with a lot 
of four-wheel steer trucks. They were an abomination 
of the devil himself. There was just no keeping them 
in the high-crowned roads, and no driving of them 
out of the ditch when they slid into them, as they 
persisted in doing despite the best efforts of the most 
competent drivers. It was no uncommon thing for a 
truck to be pulled out of the ditch as many as ten 
times in a single quarter of a mile of road. What the 
regiment would have done without the tractors, no one 
can figure. They were excellent machines and could 
go anywhere. 

It was on this march that the forage for an entire 
brigade failed. One of the regimental commanders 
made complaint to the Commanding General, a schol- 
arly gentleman who had learned his soldiering out of 
books, apparently, from his methods of conducting 
himself and his handling of his command. The Gen- 
eral didn't seem in the slightest ruffled, although the 
brigade had orders to execute a march of about thirty- 
five kilometers the next day, or a little more than 
twenty-one miles, and this, loo, at the latter end of 



ten days' continuous marching under the most trying 
weather conditions. 

The General told the Colonel that he would see 
about the forage. He probably did, for the regiment 
received no forage that day and about 1 ,200 horses 
made the march on empty stomachs and in weather 
that started off with sunshine, changed to rain and 
then to snow and then to sleet and back again at will, 
and horses, men, guns and wagons were coated with 
an icy-mail soon after the start and wore it through- 
out the march. The only forage that regiment had 
for that march was what the men stole or bought 
out of their own pockets, or such as was paid for out 
of company funds. 

But the General was on the road that morning 
and serenely inspected the brigade and called atten- 
tion to packs not being rolled right and equipment 
not being worn just exactly according to Hoyle, and 
horses not being properly groomed and a few other 
matters of a similar nature. He could spy a strap 
outside of its keep or a stirrup hung wrong, or a mess 
tin showing through the bars of a wagon, but if the 
lack of forage ever worried him it didn't show on the 
surface. There was always a well-defined idea in the 
regiment in question that if the General had used a 
little profanity around division headquarters the horses 
wouldn't have made that killing march without forage. 

On November 20th the regiment was detailed to 
salvage work, being assigned a large area near Deux- 
nouds. 

Not until the 22d of November were the guns of 
the regiment removed from the positions they occupied 
at the time of the armistice, and assembled near regi- 
mental headquarters in a park. 

On November 23d, the dugout of Captain Ray 
C. Reeves burned, and in the fire not only he, but 
Captain Neely and Lieutenants Hartley and Callen- 
der lost all of their personal effects except what they 
had upon their person. 

On November 27th the regiment took part in a 
division maneuver, an attack, with the 33d Division, 
in which the battle of St. Mihiel was fought over 
again. It was much harder work and far less satis- 
factory than actual warfare, and, of course, nothing 
pleased the umpires. 

On Thanksgiving Day, November 28th, the regi- 
ment headquarters mess gave a dinner party, to which 
were invited General Kilbreth, Brigade Commander, 



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and his entire staff. Col. Luke Lea and Major Horace 
Frierson, of the 1 14th F. A., and Col. Albert Cox, 
of the I 13th F. A., also were guests. Capts. Max 
McKay and H. E. Buckingham, with Mess Sergeant 
Harner and Private Lloyd Hallam, had been sent 
to Pans in an automobile to secure supplies for this 
dinner party, and they were most eminently successful, 
bringing back a staff car full of everything that could 
be bought in the French capital. Band Leader 
Brodsky, with a picked orchestra, furnished music for 
the occasion and Tom Shea, Ferd Heckle and others 
of the talented members of the regiment helped with 
the musical program. A piano, which had been dis- 
covered in the German Officers' Club at Thillot, was 
brought up for the occasion, and the dining room, or 
mess hall, at regimental headquarters had been suf- 
ficiently enlarged to accommodate the guests and sen- 
ior officers of the regiment. 

On December 3d all brigade and regimental com- 
manders were ordered to Toul, headquarters of the 
2d Army, commanded by Lieut. -Gen. R. L. BuUard, 
and were shown how the various army and staff head- 
quarters functioned. 

A second maneuver was had on December 4th. 
It rained, of course. Orders were received this day 
for General Kilbreth to report to G. H. Q., for spe- 
cial assignment in the office of the Chief Field Artil- 
lery. General Spaulding was named to succeed him 
and in the interim before he reported Col. Albert 
Cox, of the 1 13th F. A., the senior in the absence 
of Colonel Berry, commanded the brigade. 

Colonel Berry, who had been on leave, returned on 
the 5th, but found orders awaiting him to report at 
Langres for a special course of artillery instruction. 
This was a very fine assignment, and the highest com- 
pliment that could be paid a regimental commander. 

The March to Germany 
On December 6th orders for the brigade to march 
with the 33d Division into Germany as a part of the 
Army of Occupation were received. General Alt- 
man, Chief of Artillery. Second Army, inspected the 
regiment. 

On Sunday, December 8th, the regiment began 
its weary march into Germany. The first day's march 
was thirty-five kilometers, or about twenty-one miles. 
We made it somehow. The men walked and carried 
full packs and the tractors dragged the guns and our 
insufficient trucks hauled the rations, battery equip- 



ment, rolling kitchens and water carts. Some of the 
kitchens did not arrive at destination for the first day's 
march until after time for starting on the second day's 
hike. Consequently the men had mostly cold emer- 
gency rations. 

Halts for the night were made at Buzy, Spincourt, 
Longuyon, Longwy, and then the regiment crossed the 
northwest corner of Lorraine and entered the Grand 
Duchy of Luxemburg, being billeted the first night at 
Esch-sur-Alzette. At Spincourt were two German 
42-centimeter howitzers, complete, assembled on 
wheeled mounts in three parts, ready for loading on 
the railroad there. Also there was a big park of 
artillery material left by the Germans, and one of the 
largest ammunition dumps captured by the Allies in 
all of northern France. 

On December 12th the 33d Division, including the 
55th F. A. Brigade, was officially transferred into the 
Third Army, the Army of Occupation of Germai.y, 
but on the 1 7th, five days later, the plan was changed 
and this division was transferred back to the Second 
Army, and ordered to billet in the area north of the 
city of Luxemburg. 

Division headquarters were established at Diekirch, 
brigade headquarters at Mersch and regimental head- 
quaters at Lintgen. 

The brigade suffered a good deal of sickness dur- 
ing its sojourn in Luxemburg. The 1 1 5th came in 
for its share of influenza and pneumonia. A pall of 
gloom was cast over the regiment by the loss of three 
of its finest and most popular and efficient officers. 
I St Lieuts. Allan L. Campbell and Matthew G. Rey- 
nolds, Jr., and 2d Lieut. Vivian K. Mauser, died 
in hospitals in Luxemburg or Germany while the regi- 
ment was billeted at Lintgen. Lieutenants Campbell 
and Reynolds had joined the regiment at Camp Se- 
vier, and had been with it during its entire experience 
in France. Lieutenant Mauser came from the Sau- 
mur Artillery School and joined the regiment at Ram- 
bucourt on the 1 5th of September. Lieutenant 
Mauser's attack of pneumonia was probably induced 
by the effects of gas, which he received in the heavy 
gassing of "A" Battery just before the armistice. By 
their soldierly qualities and pleasing personality they 
had won many friends in the regiment, and by their 
efficiency and loyal devotion to duty they had greatly 
aided in the fine record the regiment made in battle. 
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shot and killed on December 1 8th, while the regiment 
was billeted at Octringe, Luxemburg. 

Information was received that Colonel Berry was 
to be promoted to a Brigadier-General and would not 
return to the regiment. Lieut. -Col. James A. Glea- 
son, of the I 14th F. A., the senior Lieutenant-Colonel 
in the brigade, was placed in command of the I 15lh, 
and Lieut. -Col. Wm. J. Bacon was transferred to 
the 1 1 4th F. A. This arrangement continued until 
Colonel Berry returned to the regiment after complet- 
ing the course of instruction at Langres. Lieut.-Col. 
Gleason did not get his deserved promotion to Colonel 
until the brigade was in the forwarding camp at Le 
Mans, ready to sail for home. Colonel Berry was 
twice recommended for promotion to be a Brigadier- 
General, but no promotions to this grade were made 
after the armistice. 

Christmas was spent in Luxemburg, and on Jan- 
uary 6th the brigade began a return march to the 
Toul area. Arriving there, the I 1 5th billeted at 
Lucey, on January 1 3th. Here all guns, trucks, 
horses and other material was turned into army parks, 
and on January 1 9th the brigade began to entrain at 
Trondes to move to the Le Mans area and join the 
30th Division preparatory to sailing for home. The 
trip was made in unhealed box cars, with seventy- 
two men to the car, and was a miserable journey. 
Travel rations only were served and there was dif- 
ficulty in securing hot coffee, and most of the men 
made the entire journey practically without sleep. At 
Trondes, the regiment was held on the train for over 
eight hours, waiting for a French pilot. The regi- 
ment arrived at Evron at 2:40 A.M., on Wednesday, 
January 22d, and detrained in a driving rain, which 
quickly turned into a heavy snow. A hike of about 
twelve kilometers brought the regiment to Bais, where 
it arrived shortly after daylight. 

On Thursday, January 30th, the brigade was re- 
viewed at Evron by General Pershing. Trucks trans- 
ported the men to and from Evron. General Lewis, 
commanding the 30th Division, and General Faison, 
who commanded the 60th infantry brigade, and for 
much of the time at Greenville, S. C, was in com- 
mand of the division, were present. 

On Thursday, February 6th the regiment marched 
to Evron and entrained there for Le Mans, arriving 
about 3 P.M., and marching to the tent area in the 
forwarding camp. This was unquestionably the poor- 



est and worst administered camp in the army. There 
was no fuel to speak of, and preparations for the care 
of the men were entirely inadequate. There seemed 
a studied effort on the part of those in authority to 
make life a burden for all troops unfortunate enough 
to land in this camp. On one afternoon, eleven of- 
ficers, two of them Brigadier-Generals, inspected our 
kitchens. A few grains of rice on the ground secured 
a thorough tongue-lashing for the unfortunate Mess 
Sergeant on duty at the time. If there was any effort 
made to help the outfits in this camp, they were so 
successfully camouflaged with fault-finding that none 
ever suspected it. 

An epidemic of influenza broke out in the brigade 
and the entire command was quaratined. The weather 
was bitter cold and there were frequent rains, wholly 
inadequate fuel supply and on many occasions the 
water supply of the camp entirely failed, disarrang- 
ing cooking and causing trouble for everybody. It is 
impossible to do full justice to this camp and the per- 
sonnel connected with it and send this book through 
the mail. Every officer and man of the regiment will 
recall it with bitterness so long as he shall live. Arbi- 
trary orders were issued, seem.ingly intended as puna- 
tive measures. Officers were put to walking posts on 
guard, and were only removed after Colonel Berry 
sent a vigorous protest at this illegal and unwarranted 
conduct through channels to G. H. Q. Two tents 
were burned in one of the batteries, and an arbitrary 
assessment was made against the officers of the regi- 
ment to pay for them. This assessment even applied 
to officers who were in Paris at the time on duty or 
on leave. Twenty-two men of the brigade died here 
of influenza and pneumonia, brought on, no doubt, by 
the poor living conditions. Home was too near to 
take a chance on filing a formal protest. Had formal 
complaint been made, the officer making it would have 
been detained indefinitely in France, and would have 
been denied the privilege of going home with his out- 
fit. There was nothing to do but grin and bear it 
and wait until returning to civil life when one might 
speak without fear of disciplinary action. A congres- 
sional investigation of conditions in this camp would 
certainly have resulted in the falling of some stars. 

There is no pleasure in criticizing such treatment 
and such conditions as were found in this camp. There 
is no satisfaction in winding up an honorable service 
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complaint. The writer realizes that he will bring 
down upon his head the combined wrath of the army 
— at least the part of it which considers itself the 
army. But this country will have other wars, and its 
sons will go forth to battle, and they are entitled to 
be benefited by the mistakes and blunders of this war. 
Some one has to comment on conditions as they ex- 
isted, and it falls naturally to the lot of those who, 
for whatever reason, act as recorders and historians 
of the war. If those who had to contend with such 
conditions remain silent regarding them, the country 
will never be wiser and nothing will be done to im- 
prove them should we ever be launched into another 
war. 

All regiments of the brigade suffered at the hands 
of the staff officers and the officials of the S. O. S. 
The movement of the brigade from Trondes to the 
Le Mans area was under the transportation officials 
of the Second Army — officers of the Regular Army. 
The brigade was hustled out of its billets before day- 
light in the morning and marched several kilometers 
to the station, where the men were herded into box 
cars which were allowed to remain on the siding for 
a period varying from eight to twenty-four hours. The 
delay was due to the fact that the staff failed to pro- 
vide locomotives to pull the cars, and while these 
same staff officers were comfortably sleeping in their 
billets in Toul the men of the brigade were shivering 
in the crowded and unhealed box cars, patiently wait- 
ing for some transportation to take them on their jour- 
ney towards the port of embarcation. 

Twenty-four hours after the troops entrained the 
last train pulled out of the siding and the brigade was 
at last headed towards home. As the last train started 
on its long journey the train commander noticed that 
the train crew had failed to connect up the air brakes 
and ordered the train stopped. He was promptly 
overruled by one of these same staff officers, who or- 
dered the train to proceed. After being en route for 
many hours the train ran away going down a heavy 
grade as a result of not having its air brakes con- 
nected, and twenty-two men were killed and many 
others maimed and wounded in the wreck that 
followed. 

This train was six days en route from Trondes to 
Evron, and in that time the men were so crowded 
that each man had floor space only twenty- four 



inches square. It was impossible to lie down to sleep. 
No hot coffee was supplied, and no fires were allowed 
on the train. 

It was impossible to believe that the soldiers of the 
American Goverment, which had provided so liberally 
for the wants of its soldiers, should be made to suf- 
fer such hardships through the indifference and inef- 
ficiency of staff and supply officers. There are forty- 
four graves in France — the graves of those who were 
killed in this wreck and the graves of those who died 
of pneumonia and influenza in the Le Mans area as a 
result of exposure and neglect, which stand as a perpet- 
ual monument to inefficiency. Forty-four men who had 
fought the war for their country, and who expected 
soon to be back home with their families, had their 
lives snuffed out through cruel and stup:d indifference 
and inefficiency. 

It was expected that the officers responsible for 
these outrages would be punished, but not so. Instead 
insult was added to injury. An inspector was detailed 
to probe the cause of the railroad wreck, and the 
brigade in its anticipation of an honest report was 
sorely disappointed. The inspector's report, which was 
calculated to whitewash the guilty parties, was rejected 
by the Judge Advocate, who passed on the legal phases 
of the question, and thrown back on the hands of the 
inspector a perfect wreck, but still the officers who 
were responsible for the loss of twenty-two lives 
escaped unpunished. In the vocabulary of the 55th 
Brigade the expression"Back Area Bum" carries all 
of the odium that does the word "Hun." 

These unnecessary hardships were accepted by the 
men in true soldierly spirit, but such treatment inevit- 
ably hurt morale and engendered a feeling of hatred 
towards the officials who were responsible for the con- 
ditions encountered. However, the American spirit 
of humor could not be crushed, as indicated by the 
following incident: On the French railroads the ca- 
pacity of each box car is painted on the side of the 
car. A standard car is labelled "40 Hommes (men), 
of 8 Chevaux (horses)." Imitating this system some 
of the men chalked the box cars carrying our brigade 
"70 Americans, or 6 mules. 

While the regiment was at Bais three-day leaves 
to Paris were permitted, and many members of the 
regiment were thus enabled to visit this wonderful 
city. While at Le Mans the unwise policy announced 



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immediately after tiie armistice of no promotions was 
modified and a number of well-earned promotions of 
officers in the brigade were announced. The order 
making these promotions is found elsewhere in this 
volume. 

General Hugh A. Drum, Chief of Staff of the 
First Army, lectured to the officers of the 30th Divi- 
sion at Le Mans on February 28th. The lecture was 
illustrated with lantern slides, and was most highly en- 
tertaining and instructive. It did a great deal to edu- 
cate certain officers of the 30th Division and was a 
matter of great surprise to others. From it they 
learned that the Hindenburg line was not a little local 
affairs, running through a tunnel, but a great system 
of defenses extending from the North Sea to the Alps, 
and that it was broken many times by the American 
Armies acting alone. His lecture dealt chiefly with 
the operations of the American Armies. 

Monday. March 3d, will always be remembered 
with joy and gladness, for on that day orders were 
received for the movement of the brigade to St. 
Nazaire for embarkation there for home. The sched- 
ule provided for the 1 I 3th to move on the 4th, the 
1 I 4th, with A Battery of the 1 I 5th, on the 6th, and 
the 11 5th F. A. and 105th Ammunition Train on 
the 7th. It IS giving the devil his due to mention here 
the excellent train service from Le Mans to St. 
Nazaire. 

The regiment arrived at St. Nazaire on the 8th 
and was placed in camp No. 2. The men had been 
deloused and reoutfitted at Le Mans Forwarding 



Camp, but they were put through the cleansing proc- 
ess here again and all were physically examined. On 
the same afternoon the regiment moved to the Isolation 
Camp, where it remained until the 1 3th. when it 
boarded the Koningin der Nederlanden. and sailed 
the same afternoon for Newport News, which was 
later changed to Charleston. 

A Battery sailed with the 1 1 4th F. A. and Bri- 
gade Headquarters on the Finland on the 1 0th, at 
which time the remaining units of the I 1 5th F. A. 
were posted to sail the I I th on the Kroonland, but the 
change in the destination of the regiment from Newport 
News to Charleston brought about a change in the 
ship. 

The camp at St. Nazaire was the cleanest, best 
regulated and smoothest running piece of machinery 
that was encountered by the regiment in all its three 
years of service. It was certainly a refreshing experi- 
ence after the loathsome place at Le Mans. There 
was an entirely different atmosphere. Officers in 
charge were the most courteous, polite and consider- 
ate that had been encountered anywhere except at 
Camps du Valdahon and Coetquidan. Soldiers were 
treated like human beings and not like criminals. 

While the regiment was at Bais and in the For- 
warding Camp at Le Mans, it received the follow- 
ing officers from the 3d Division, as replacements on 
the officers who, having expressed a desire to remain 
in the service, were transferred from the regiment to 
the Army of Occupation in Germany: Majors, Henry 
A. Howe, H. C. Wilder, Aubrey R. Bunting, Enoch 



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Boarding the Transport at St. Nazaire 



Ensley; Captains, A. K. Condee, W. T. Adams, 
Hugh M. Fulgum; 1st Lieutenants, Joseph M. Yates, 
E. M. Finietter; 2d Lieutenant, W. D. Gale; Cap- 
tains, Ernest W. Bieihan and Hubbard K. Hinde, 
Medical Corps; 1st Lieutenants, Herbert L. Phillips 
and Beverely V. W. Estill, Medical Corps ; Chap- 
lain, Patrick J. Lydon. 

The Journey Home 

The regiment, less Battery A, accompanied by vari- 
ous units of the 105th Ammunition Tram, sailed from 
St. Nazaire, France, for the United States on the 
1 3th of March. It was a happy outfit. The idea 
of once more getting back home, after eleven months 
in a foreign country, appealed to every one. 

The boat, the Koningin der Nederlanden, was not 
the best in the transport service, nor the fastest one, 
but no man or officer was critical, and the mere fact 
that it was headed in the right direction, and, that 
at the end of the journey was home and loved ones, 
was sufficient. The boat was from Holland, and had 
been in the trade from San Francisco to the South 
Sea Islands. It was not a very big ship and the 
accommodations for the officers were not of the best, 
but the men were well quartered, and there were so 
few officers aboard that it was possible for all of the 
Senior Sergeants to have staterooms and have a place 
at the officers' mess. The fact that only units of the 
brigade, well acquainted, were aboard, made it espe- 
cially pleasant for both men and officers. 

All of the rigid restrictions that had harassed every 



one on the journey to France had been abolished, and 
there was an atmosphere of freedom and good-fellow- 
ship aboard that made the long days pass quickly and 
pleasantly for every one. 

Colonel Harry S. Berry was in command of the 
troops and he made as few rules as were possible to 
keep discipline and order on the ship and required 
as little of duty as was consistent with the necessities 
of the occasion. There were no irksome details 
and no annoying embargoes, and the journey was 
thoroughly enjoyed by every one. The first two days 
out were strenuous, as the weather is always nasty 
in the Bay of Biscay, and the sea is always rough. 
There was some sea-sickness, but nothing like what 
It was on the journey over, as the men were not 
crowded and were allowed to remain on deck and 
smoke after dark, all of which was necessarily denied 
on the way to France. Worry and care were thrown 
to the winds, and there were few kicks left in the sys- 
tem of any soul aboard. 

At the outset of the journey the destination of the 
ship was Newport News, Va., but it was generally 
understood that we would land at Charleston, and a 
wireless message was received the first day out chang- 
ing the port to that city. The average speed was 
between eleven and twelve knots and the weather was 
ideal most of the way. The distance from St. Nazaire 
to Charleston by the route taken was 4,135 miles. 
The vessel passed in sight of the Azores and just 
north of Bermuda, and arrived at Charleston on the 
afternoon of March 27th. The daily run to noon 




Home Again 

The Regiment Landing at Charleston, and Incidents of the Trip Across 

rl^ o,T'r^,^'°"'"..f n^!"' ^""" °' '*'' N^*^''^"d- (2) After eleven months' service. (3) Officers of the ship. (4) Amusement en route. 

(5; Old Glory. (6) The forward deck. (7) Charleston terminals. (8) A good-looking sign. (9 and 10) On board the ship. (II) The end 

ot the journey. 



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The Battle Flag of the I 15th Field Artillery 



each day, latitude, longitude, average speed and mile- 
age is given in the following table: 

Date Lattilude Longitude Run Distance to Average 

March North West in Charleston Speed in 

Degrees and Degrees and Miles in miles Knots 
Minutes Minutes 

14 47-15 7-25 215 *3.385 10.0 

15 45-47 13-24 282 3,638 11.6 

16 42-25 18-32 3C0 3,340 12.3 

17 38-57 23-19 301 3,038 12.9 

18 35-30 27-56 310 2,734 12.8 

19 33-34 33-35 303 2,362 12.4 

20 33-14 39-09 285 2,077 11.7 

21 33-06 44-54 289 1,788 11.8 

22 32-56 50-42 292 1,496 12.0 

23 33-04 56-36 297 1,181 12.2 

24 33-10 62-10 280 901 11.5 

25 33-06 67-29 268 633 11.0 

26 33-01 73-35 307 326 12 6 

27 — Sighted land at 1 :30 o'clock P.M., and entered harbor 

at Charleston at 4 o'clock P.lvi. Tied up at government 
terminals at North Charleston. 



* Indicates distance to Newport News, Va. 

Most of the officers of the ship were from civil life, 
and chiefly from the Pacific Coast, Captain Cronan, 
U. S. N,, was a thoroughly good seaman, and con- 



cerned himself chiefly in the affairs of getting the 
good ship through. 

Only the regimental commander and other neces- 
sary officers were allowed to go ashore the night of 
the 27th, and then only for the purpose of visiting 
the commanding officer at the Government Terminals 
to secure orders for the troop movement the follow- 
ing morning to Columbia and Camp Jackson. It was 
a great sensation to again set foot on American soil 
after an absence of nearly eleven months. 

Many tugs, government vessels and excursion steam- 
ers, crowded with people, met the ship outside the 
Charleston harbor and escorted it in, with much shout- 
ing and waving of hankerchiefs, blowing of whistles 
and blaring of bands. The wharfs and docks at the 
city and all along the river front, the entire seven 
miles to the terminals at North Charleston, were 
thronged. 

A rough sea was running when the pilot boat came 
alongside, and the little skiff in which the pilot at- 
tempted to board the ship was swamped, but with- 
out mishap other than a thorough drenching to those 
in it. This necessitated Captain Cronan personally 
taking the ship into the harbor, a feat which he ac- 



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The Reception at Nashville 

(1) The Triumphant Arch on Capitol Boulevard. (2) The 115lh F. A. passing ihroug;. the Arch. (3) Col. and 
Mrs. Berry. (4) Passing the Slate Capilol. (5) Governor Roberts' address of welcome at the Parthenon. 



complished most successfully, aided by a government 
tug as pathfinder. 

The following morning the units went ashore and 
immediately entrained for Camp Jackson, at Colum- 
bia, S. C, arriving at destination the same day, 
once more settling down to the deadly routine of 
camp life, and the machinery of registering in. delous- 
ing and the other monotonous commonplaces of peace- 
time soldiering. The camp was a wooden one, and 
there were cots and other comforts, and much liberty 
was allowed the men and officers. The slay here was 



pleasant though monotonous. The camp was well 
conducted. 

On Monday, March 30th, the brigade, with the 
other units of the 30th Division, paraded in Colum- 
bia, and a most hearty and noisy reception was given 
the returned soldiers. After the parade everyone was 
dismissed and allowed to return to camp at will on 
special cars provided for that purpose. The city of 
Columbia tried in every way to make the occasion a 
pleasant one and succeeded, too, though the men were 
all impatient to get home and were perhaps not fully 
appreciative in view of the fact. 



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W^ ^^. 




I III Rl ( I I'jKis Al Ml MPIII^ 

A Royal Welcome lo the Returned Heroes 
Top — Colonel Harry Berry. Second — Battery A at ihf. 
Union Station. Th!rJ — Battery E passing Police Station. 
Fourth — Lt. Col. \Vm. J. Bacon. Bollom — Boy Scouts at 
head of parade. 



Orders were received for the 114th and i 1 5th 
Artilleries to proced to Fort Oglethorpe, at Chatta- 
nooga, the 1 1 4th by way of Knoxville and Nashville, 
with parades in both cities, and the 115th by way 
of Knoxville, Nashville and Memphis, in which cities 
it was to parade. 

On Wednesday, April 2d, the 11 5th F. A. left 
Camp Jackson on three special trains, with sleepers 
for all officers and men and a kitchen car for each 
train. The first section carried E and F Batteries 
and the band, with Colonel Berry in command. The 
second section carried C and D Batteries and Head- 
quarters Company, under command of Lieutenant- 
Colonel Bacon. The third section, under command 
of Captain Shirley, carried A and B Batteries and the 
Supply Company. The movement began at I :30 P.M. 

The regiment arrived in Knoxville the following 
morning, Friday, April 4, at 6:00 o'clock, and pa- 
raded there, receiving a hearty welcome. The spe- 
cial trains began leaving that night at 9:00 o'clock, 
arriving in Nashville Saturday morning. 

C and D Batteries were largely from Nashville and 
the reception accorded the regiment was nothing less 
than royal, although the 1 1 4th F. A. and I 1 4th 
Machine Gun Battalion had already paraded in that 
city. 

Sunday, April 6th, the specials began arriving in 
Memphis at an early hour and the welcome given the 
returning soldiers was the greatest they had yet en- 
countered. Nearly 500 men from this regiment were 
from Memphis, and many others from the Memphis 
territory. The reception was under the auspices of 
the Chamber of Commerce and nothing was over- 
looked to make the men fee! that they were heroes 
and that Memphis was proud to do them honor. No 
such crowd had ever assembled in the Bluff City. 
The streets were lavishly decorated and solidly lined 
with people from the Union Station through the route 
of the march. 

After the parade the entire regiment was given an 
elaborate dinner at the Scottish Right Masonic Tem- 
ple, opposite Forrest Park, after which the men were 
marched back to the train to deposit their arms and 
equipment. They were then dismissed until the hour 
of departure for the trains that night. 

A feature of the dinner was the cakes that had 
been baked and donated by the ladies and the bakeries 
of Memphis. There was a full-grown cake, some 




liiL 1 iKST American Offensive 

(1) Any shelters ,n Bou,ll,onv,lle. (2) Guns abandoned by .he Germans a. Thiaucourt (3) The Boche loaded the tram bu. "^^ Americans 
go .heir goa.. (4) Mon. Sec. (5) The bridge a. Bernecour.. The 11 5.h F. A.'s telephone cen.ral was located here .n the Sl M.h.el dr.ve. 
(6) French refugees at FUrey escaping from the del.vered sal.ent. (7) The Meuse river and bridge a. the cty of St. M.h.el, (8) Headquarters 
of German Crown Prince at Mont Sec. 



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Parade a'i Chattanooga 

(I) Band of 115th Field Artillery. (2) Dinner for every soldier. (3) The 115th on the march. (4) Col. Berry 
and staff. (5) Dancing in the streets. (6) The reviewing stand. (7) Heroes all. 



of them gigantic, and all good, for every man and 
officer in the regiment. Most elaborate cakes were 
presented to Colonel Berry and Lieutenant-Colonel 
Bacon. Each special train was laden with cake when 
the regiment departed that night, and cake was a regu- 
lar item of fare for several days after the regiment 
arrived at Fort Oglethorpe. 

The regiment arrived at Chattanoga at 1:15 P.M., 



on April 7, and the trains were shunted directly to 
the siding at Camp Forrest in Chickamauga National 
Park. 

Tuesday. April 8th, the two artillery regiments and 
the 1 17th Infantry (Old 3d Tennessee), commanded 
by Col. Carey F. Spence, of Knoxville, paraded in 
Chattanooga. The reception here was perhaps the 
noisiest of any in the State. The Kiwanis Club of 



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Chattanooga had charge of this feature, and it did 
itself proud. The reception was hearty and sincere, 
and after the parade the men were dismissed and all 
were entertained with a bountiful dinner at the various 
churches of the city. A most eloquent address of 
welcome was made by City Attorney Frank S. 
Carden. 

The parade was commanded by Brigadier-General 
Lawrence D. Tyson, of Knoxville, Tennessee's rank- 
ing officer in the war, who commanded the 59th Bri- 
gade of the 30th Division, made up of the I 1 7th and 
1 I 8th Infantries. 

A banquet at the Patton Hotel was tendered the 
senior officers of the Tennessee units by the business 
men of Chattanooga, at which Judge Nathan L. Bach- 
man, of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, presided as 
toastmaster. 

On Thursday, April 1 0th, General L. D. Tyson 
decorated the regimental flag with service ribbons 
bearing the battles and defensive operations in which 
the regiment had taken part m the war with Germany. 
To many these names will mean nothing, but to the 
men who served through the war they will linger in 
memory so long as life shall last. They will always 
bring back vividly the dangers and hardships and dis- 
comforts of the active campaign, the sullen roaring of 
the guns in the big drives and the whir of hostile air- 
planes overhead. They will start in the nostrils the 
tang of the smoke of battle and the stifling fumes of 
the reeking gases of modem warfare. Before the eye 
will appear again the desolation of ravished France, 
the blasted villages, ruined homes and meadows plowed 
deep by bursting shells and tortuous trenches — the 
rows upon rows of orderly graves in the field ceme- 
teries, the mazes and masses of barbed wire, the spout- 
ing geysers of dirty smoke and bits of earth where 
the big shells of the enemy are bursting, the roads 
crowded with the cluttering traffic of the front areas, 
the dead strewn about promiscuously awaiting burial, 
bloated horses, with feet and heads in grotesque and 
unnatural positions, abandoned equipment littering the 
ditches beside the road and scattered about the fields, 
the endless streams of men and material moving, halt- 
ing and moving again in sullen jerks, appearing aim- 
less and futile because of its magnitude. Over all 
will brood the atmosphere of tense, ceaseless effort 
which is the most noticeable characteristic of the zone 
of active operations. 




The ceremony of decorating the colors was held 
under the shadow of the magnificent monument of 
the State of Georgia, in Chickamaugua National 
Park, with its beautiful inscription: 

"To the lasting memory of all her sons who fought 
on this field — those who fought and lived and those 
who fought and died — those who gave much and those 
who gave all, Georgia erects this monument. 

A composite battery was organized as a guard of 
honor and escort to the colors. This battery was made 
up of men from every organization of the regiment. 



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At the close of the impressive ceremony. General 
Tyson addressed Colonel Berry as follows: 

Colonel Berry, it gives me very great pleasure to inform you 
that I have been delegated by General Pershing, commandmg 
the American Expeditionary Forces in France, on behalf of 
the President of the United States, to decorate the colors of 
your regiment, the 115th Field Artillery of the 30th Division, 
A. E. F. 

This decoration is made in commemoration of the valor 
and splendid services of your regiment during the great World 
War, and especially for the magnificent courage and fine sol- 
dierly qualities which the officers and men of this regiment 
displayed in the great series of battles in France, from the 25th 
day of August, 1918, to the signing of the armistice and ces- 
sation of hostilities on the morning of November II, 1918. 

During this time this regiment was especially mentioned for 
its splendid work in the following offensive and defensive 
actions : 

Toul Sector, France, Aug. 25 to Sept. II, 1918. 

St. Mihiel Offensive. France, Sept. 12 to Sept. 16, 1918. 

Meuse-Argonne Offensive, France, Sept. 26 to Oct. 8, 1918. 

Woevre Sector, France, Oct. II to Nov. 8, 1918. 

I am proud to know that the greatest part of this regiment 
comes from the grand old Volunteer Stale of Tennessee, but 
whether they came from Tennessee or from other States, they 
deserve, and I know will ever receive, the greatest praise and 
admiration and love from their grateful countrymen for the 
services which they have so nobly, and well, rendered to our 
country. 

I feel greatly honored in being designated to perform this 
important duty, and I now decorate these beautiful regimental 
colors With the highest honors that can be given this regiment, 
and know the members of this regiment fully appreciate the 
great honor now conferred upon them by the Commander-in- 
Chief. 

Thereupon General Tyson tied the beautiful stream- 
ers, broad red silk ribbons, with the inscriptions in 
plain bold black printing, to the regimental flag and 
shook hands with Colonel Berry and heartily con- 
gratulated him and the regiment upon its record in 
the European War. 

Upon the muster out of the regiment Colonel Berry 
had the regimental flags deposited with the Adjutant- 
General of Tennessee as a permanent memorial to 
the service of Tennessee's sons in the 115th Field 
Artillery. In the stately old capitol at Nashville these 
flags rest forever alongside those carried by the 1 st 
Tennessee Infantry and the other historic regiments 
that have gone out from the Volunteer State to do 
battle in Mexico, at New Orleans, in the Philippines 
and m the bloody fighting of the Civil War. 

And the flag of the 1 1 5th can hold its place proudly 
among the faded and stained souvenirs of the other 
wars, the tributes to the courage and gallantry of 



Tennesseans wherever the forces of the nation have 
fought. It has helped to make history. It has helped 
to establish right forever upon its throne. It has been 
flung bravely and undaunted into the greatest battle of 
the greatest war the world has ever seen, the Meuse- 
Argonne. From this gigantic struggle, that encom- 
passed all of the world, it has come out unsullied, un- 
tarnished, with honor and renown and stained only 
with the blood of the dauntless sons of Tennessee 
who gave their lives for love of country and of home. 

On the night of Friday, April I I th, the officers 
of the regiment assembled in the banquet hall at the 
Hotel Patton in Chattanooga for a farewell dinner. 
Captain Charles L. Neely was toastmaster. It was 
the last dinner party of the officers who remained 
with the regiment until the going down of the curtain 
on the final act. The ranks were woefully thinned. 
What with the transfers in France, the three vacan- 
cies by deaths, and those officers who had succeeded 
in getting discharged since the arrival of the brigade 
in the United States, there were many familiar faces 
missing from the mess table. It was not an especially 
cheerful party anyway. The next day the real de- 
mobilization of the regiment was to begin and the 
men and officers would scatter to the four corners 
of this big country of ours. There was nothing strong 
present except the friendships that had sprung up in 
the sharing of the hardships and dangers of the serv- 
ice. There were no outside guests, not even those 
ever-essential and convivial spirits of all similar gather- 
ings in France, General Van Rouge and Colonel Van 
Blanc. Monsieur Cognac, one of the interpreters of 
the A. E. F., had been left in his native country. 
The speeches were all brief. After the banquet the 
officers attended a dance at the Hotel Patton given 
by the officers of the 1 1 7th Infantry. 

A noticeable feature of the banquet was that only 
four of those present had been officers with the regi- 
ment on the Mexican border and had served through- 
out the European War with the command. These 
were Col. Harry S. Berry, Lieut-Colonel William 
J. Bacon and Captains John D. Key and Charles 
L. Neely. 

Beginning the next day, Wednesday, April 9th, the 
real work of getting mustered out was begun. The 
final physical examinations of the men were made, 
discharge certificates were prepared and records 



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whipped into shape for the last official acts of the 
war so far as the 1 1 5th Field Artillery was concerned. 

The officers and clerical forces worked with such 
efficiency and so tirelessly that one-half of the com- 
mand was musteerd out of service and sent on its 
way home, rejoicing, on Saturday, April 1 2th, just 
two years to the day from the time the regiment was 
called into service for duty in the European war, as 
the I St Tennessee Infantry. The troops mustered out 
on this date were Batteries A, B, C and D. A 
special train was put on to Memphis to accommodate 
the men of the I 1 5th F. A. and I 1 3th Machine Gun 
Battalion. The other units of the regiment were mus- 
tered out on Monday, April 1 4lh. 

For many of the men it was a home-coming after 
almost three years of constant service. The units of 
the I St Tennessee Infantry were called out for Mexi- 
can border duty on the i 8th day of June, 1916, 
serving in that emergency until the 24th day of March, 
1917, when it was mustered out at Memphis, Tenn., 
after returning from more than seven months service 
at Eagle Pass, Texas, on the Rio Grande and just 
across the river from Mexico. 

After an interval of nineteen days, during which 
the men were allowed to pursue their civilian pur- 
suits, on April 12, 1917, the call for service in the 
European War was issued and the regiment was again 
in harness for a two-year hitch. 

The regiment had made a good record on the bor- 
der and it made a good record in the work it did 
during the summer of 1917, guarding the railroad 
bridges and big industrial plants over the State of Ten- 
nessee. Its record in the greatest war of the world 
is as good as any in the sei-vice. It accomplished every 
mission assigned it, and was never found wanting. 

A good many of the officers availed themselves 
of the fifteen-day leave authorized, and which could 
only be secured by camouflage. It was necessary to cer- 
tify that the officer applying had no employment and 
would devote the fifteen days exclusively to looking 
for it. Some officers were too conscientious to apply 
for the leave, but others salved their conscience by 
seeking positions at salaries of $100,000 per year 
and upwards. While on leave the officers could 
travel at one cent per mile, by securing certificates 
from the camp Quartermaster, showing just what jour- 
neys they desired to make. A bonus of $60 was paid 



to each officer and man receiving an honorable dis- 
charge, irrespective of length of service. 

Another opportunity was given the officers to remain 
in the regular army or to apply for commissions in 
the Reserve Corps, but Captain John D. Key was 
the only officer who asked to remain in service, and 
very few asked for reserve commissions. Men and 
officers were fed up on the army and thoroughly sick- 
ened with the red tape and delays and circumlocution 
of the system. It is well enough to cast aside one's 
individuality and liberty for the period of a national 
emergency, and there is a fascination about the army 
during war time, but few who have been successful 
in civil life would care for it as a profession. 

It was Fini la Cuene for the 1 I 5th Field Artillery 
and also for the Old First Tennessee Infantry. All 
who had served with the regiment could retire to civil 
life with a sense of duty well done. Other regiments 
received more decorations and other units suffered more 
battle deaths and more of wounded and gassed, but 
none in service could show a cleaner or a more faith- 
ful, consistent and intelligent service. It had well 
contributed its part to the great and glorious victory 
of the Allies, and it had helped materially to estab- 
lish that right should prevail over might and that the 
world should remain a safe and secure place in which 
civilized human beings might dwell in peace, happi- 
ness and prosperity. 

Following is the list of officers and men in the regi- 
ment, by organizations, as reported by organization 
commanders, who are entitled to wear the wound 
chevron : 

Battery A (22) 

Capt. John D. Key. 

Sergeant Claybourn F. Brown. 

Sergeant John C. Murphy. 

Sergeant Richard L. Sorsby. 

Corporal John E. Jennings. 

Corporal Harry B. Arnold. 

Private, 1 st Class, Willie R. Barefield. 

Private, 1st Class, John E. Carroll. 

Private, 1st Class, John A. Cooper. 

Private, 1 st Class, Charles A. Mosier. 

Private, 1 st Class, Joseph S. Nance. 

Private Elmo T. Spence. 

Private James Fuller. 

Private Elmert P. Shaw. 

Private William C. Torian. 



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Private Frank Crone. 

Private Andrew W. Tillman. 

Private Edward A. Brown. 

Private William E. Gaffney. 

Private Charles L. Hicks. 

Private Alonzo L. Oakley. 

The foregoing were gassed on the night of No- 
vember 7, 1918. 

Private, 1 st Class, Shelby A. Clay was wounded 
on September 26th, in the Argonne. 

Battery B (19) 
Sergeant William N. Naylor, wounded by shrapnel. 
Private, 1 st Class, Mike Splendore, wounded and 
gassed. 

The following men were gassed: 
Sergeant Robert L. GilfiUan. 
Sergeant George N. Ferguson. 
Corpora! John J. Guinozzo. 
Corporal William T. Cheairs. 
Corpora! William N. Palmer. 
Corporal Eular E. Ferguson. 
Corporal Thomas E. Battle. 
Private Herman R. Wankel. 
Private, 1st Class, Ben Harris. 
Private, 1st Class, Henry F. Moll. 
Private, I st Class. John W. David. 
Private, I st Class, Phil E. Weinrich. 
Private Charlie Adams. 
Private William L. Anderson. 
Private Oscar J. Harris. 
Private Robert E. Hicks. 
Private George Sparks. 

Battery C (None) 

Battery D ( 1 ) 
Mechanic Ernest J. Dennis. 

Battery E (3) 
Capt. Innis Brown, shell wound in the Argonne. 
Mess Sergeant Ernest W. Long, November 9th, 
gas. 

Private, 1st Class, John A. Cooper, November 

^^•^^^- Battery F(l) 

Private Francesco Gaudino, \vounded in action near 
Montfaucon in Argonne battle, November 4th, 

Headquarters Co. (2) 
1st Lieut. Charles T. McMurray, September 25th, 
gassed. 



Private, 1st Class, John S. Baber, October 23d, 
' ■ Supply Company (None) 

Sanitary Detachment (None) 
Ordnance Detachment (None) 

The following enlisted men from the regiment were 
sent to the Artillery School at Saumur France, in the 
months indicated. All of them received commissions 
except those who were at the school and had not com- 
pleted the course when the armistice was signed. How- 
ever, Corporal James M. Scruggs, Jr., was commis- 
sioned after completing the course and was asigned to 
the Second Division. 

June, 1918 

Regt. Sergeant-Major Frank M. Dooley, Jr., 
Hq. Co. 

Sergeant Frank King, Battery B. 

Sergeant William O. Hutcheson, Battery C. 

Sergeant Omer Herndon, Battery E. 

July 
Bn. Sergeant-Major George W. Killebrew, Jr., 
Hq. Co. 

Bn. Sergeant-Major Eugene C. Mitchell, Hq. Co. 
Sergeant Crenshaw Howell, Battery D. 
Sergeant Paul Capps, Hq. Co. 

August 

1st Sergeant Claude H. Calvert, Battery A. 
1st Sergeant William R. Wilson, Battery F. 
Sergeant Egbert O. Hail, Hq. Co. 
Sergeant John W. Judd, Jr., Hq. Co. 

September 
Regt. Sergeant-Major Frank H. Robinson, 
Hq. Co. 

Sergeant Green Chandler, Hq. Co. 
Sergeant Thomas O'Conner, Hq. Co. 

October 
Sergeant Guy D. Mason, Battery C. 
Corporal James M. Scruggs, Jr., Battery B. 
Corporal William F. Holt, Jr., Battery D. 
Corporal Roy H. Kreiss, Battery F. 

The following report was made by organization 
commanders of all men killed in action, died of wounds 
and disease between the time the regiment was called 
into service for the European War and the date of 
muster out, April 12, 1919. These records are neces- 
sarily incomplete and unsatisfactory. When it is con- 
sidered that the regiment was on the move so con- 



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stantiy and that many of its records were lost at the 
front, the reason can be readily appreciated. In addi- 
tion to this, some of the men died in hospitals and 
the only information received would be months later. 
Others perhaps have died, but there is no way of 
checking up the records. 

Battery A 
2d Lieut. Vivian K. Mouser, disease. 
Private Albert Clark. 
Private Lee Lewis. 

Battery B 
Private Samuel O. Givens, disease. 
Private Walter McD. Foster, disease. 
Private Raymond D. Lyons, disease. 
Private Joseph Wyerman, disease. 
Private William Ballard, accidental. 
Private Ed Evans, accidental. 

Battery C 
1st Lieut. Allan L. Campbell, disease. 
Private, 1st Class, Herman Ray, cause not re- 
ported. 

Private Byrd R. Erwin, cause not reported. 
Private Claud C. Williams, cause not reported. 
Mess Sergeant Robert Warren, disease, Le Mans, 

France. o r>> 

Battery D 

Wagoner Robert S. Parks, accidental. 

Private Arlie H. Ogle, killed in action October 

6th, Argonne. 

Private James T. Hinkle, disease. 

Private Hugh C. Clabo, disease. 

Battery E 
1st Lieut. Matthew G. Reynolds, Jr., disease. 

Battery F 

1st Sergeant James C. Guthrie, killed in action 
Avocourt, Argonne. 

Private Alonzo K. Smith, killed in action, Avo- 
court, Argonne. 

Private Isham B. Smith, killed in action, Avocourt, 
Argonne. 

Private, 1st Class, Carl McGeha, cause not re- 
ported. 

Private Dewey Harris, cause not reported. 

Private Emmett Morrow, cause not reported. 

Private Mike J. Becker, cause not reported. 



Headquarters Company 
Private Frank H. Beasley, December 20, 1917, 
Camp Sevier, disease. 

Corporal Mack D. Bussey. January 24, Base Hos- 
pital 87, France. 

Corporal Emery C. Farver, January 29, Base Hos- 
pital 9, France. 

Supply Company 

Regt. Sergeant Karl Wymer, February, 1919, Le 
Mans, France. 

Wagoner Henseley, Camp Sevier, disease. 

Private John P. Higgs. Camp Sevier, disease. 

No others reported. 

The following report from Battery A is about an 
average of the firing done by the individual batteries 
while the regiment was at the front: 1st Gun Squad, 
Sergeant Clarke, 9 1 6 rounds ; 2d Gun Squad, Ser- 
geant Whitelaw, 1,190 rounds ; 3d Gun Squad, Ser- 
geant Murphy, 1,350 rounds; 4th Gun Squad, Ser- 
geant Brown, 1 ,295 rounds. In addition the men 
of this battery, using the guns of Battery B, near 
Montfaucon, in the Argonne battle fired 722 rounds. 
This makes a total of 5,473 rounds fired by Battery 
A alone. On this basis, the total for the regiment 
(estimated) would be over 32.638 rounds. The 
weight of the two kinds of projectiles chiefly fired by 
the 155 m-m howitzers, are: Long steel shell, 43 kg., 
containing about 10 kg. 200 of high explosive; semi- 
steel shell, 43 kg. 550, containing about 4 kg. 500 of 
high explosive. An artillery caisson for this ammuni- 
tion transports twenty-four rounds, complete, and re- 
quires from six to eight horses. A Chariot du Pare, 
French wagon, would haul forty rounds complete, with 
six to eight horses. A regular ammunition truck would 
haul about forty rounds complete and a larger truck, 
maximum from fifty to sixty rounds. The round con- 
sists of the projectile, powder charge in silk sack, fuse 
and primer. The howitzers were capable of firing 
.-.s fast as four rounds per minute, but the rate of fire 
was scarcely ever more than two rounds per minute. 
A day's fire per gun was estimated at 1 50 rounds 
and for the entire regiment was 3,600 rounds, or 
ninety truck loads. The maximum range with the 
F. A. shell and 00 charge of powder is about 1 1 ,200 
meters, or 6.7 miles. With the O. A. shell and its 
heavier charge of high explosive, the maximum range 
with the same charge is about 9,300 meters, or a little 
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Promotions From the Ranks 
The following list of one hundred and seventy- 
one names is an honor roil for the old First Tennessee 
Infantry, and a living tribute to the character of nnen 
who gave their time and efforts voluntarily to the 
cause of the National Guard. All of these men were 
either privates or non-commissioned officers in the Tirst 
Tennessee Infantry between the time it was called 
into service for duty on the Mexican border and the 
date of its being sent overseas as the 1 1 5th Field 
Artillery. The list is by no means complete, as it 
has been compiled almost enUrely from memory and 
not from official records, which will show many names 
that have been ovevlooked. All of these men held 
commissions in the war with Germany. Many of 
them were decorated for gallantry, many of them 
gave their lives. All gave their best for country and 
liberty. It is a record that any regiment may con- 
template with pride. While a goodly number of these 
officers were promoted from the ranks, the large ma- 
jority of them won their commissions in the training 
camps, competing with the picked men from the entire 
nation. The great number of captains and field of- 
ficers testifies to the value of the training received in 
the regiment and is a high tribute to Colonel Harry 
S. Berry as a commanding officer. 

AcosTA, George B Lieutenant Infantry 

Adams, Claude M Lieutenant Infantry 

Adams, Marshall C Lieutenant Aviation 

*ArmSTR0NC, Henry G Lieutenant Aviation 

AppersoN, William J Captain Field Artillery 

Anderson, Ben Lieutenant Infantry 

Bacon, William J Lieutenant-Colonel Field Artillery 

Brucman, Copeland K Lieutenant Infantry 

Bright, Robert Lieutenant Infantry 

Beck, Robert O Lieutenant Infantry 

Bailey, Brodus Lieutenant Infantry 

Bell, Stuart Lieutenant Infantry 

*BratT0N, Clyde O Lieutenant Infantry 

Bard. Thomas G Captain Field Artillery 

Bailey, Robert W Lieutenant Aviation 

Beard, Charles G Lieutenant Infantry 

Bright, Frank S Captain Infantry 

Buckingham, Hugh E Captain Field Artillery 

Bruce, Joseph W Captain Aviation 

Berry, Robert T Lieutenant Infantry 

BosWELL, HadEN E Lieutenant Aviation 

Bigelow, William S.. Captain Infantry 

Brown, William C. F Lieutenant Aviation 

Calvert, Thomas M Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Comer, Travis Lieutenant Infantry 

*KilIed in action. **Ace. 



Copeland, William R Lieutenant Infantry 

CalliCOTT, Harry S Lieutenant Infantry 

Cauvin, Robert S Lieutenant Infantry 

Callahan. Eugene S Captain Infantry 

Campbell, Albert A Lieutenant Quartermaster Corps 

Carter. Thomas W Lieutenant Infantry 

Chamberlain, Charles H Lieutenant Field .'\riillery 

Chandler. Hugh C Captain Aviation 

Chandler, Walter C Captain Field Artillery 

Chandler, William J Captain Infantry 

Clouch, John Lieutenant Infantry 

Creson, Thomas K Lieutenant Infantry 

Culpepper, Earl Lieutenant Infantry 

Craddock, Charles T Lieutenant Engineers 

**Chambers, Reed M Major Aviation 

Covington. John Lieutenant Quartermaster Corps 

Co.X. Joseph E Lieutensnl Field Artillery 

Capps. Paul Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Coe, Roderick D Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Caldwell, Thomas B Captain Infantry 

Crews, James W Lieutenant Infantry 

DranE. Wenzer Lieutenant Quartermaster Corps 

Dedrick. George S Lieutenant Infantry 

Dunn, Harry S Lieutenant Infantry 

DeWeese, Charles Lieutenant Infantry 

DONELSON, Andrew J Captain Field Artillery 

DONELSON, Frank D Captain Infantry 

DuEPREE, Thomas W Lieutenant Infantry 

DooLEY, Frank M Lieutenant Artillery 

Driver, James S Captain Infantry 

Eaton, Archie Captain Infantry 

EsTES, Paul N Lieutenant Infantry 

Everett, Albert Lieutenant Infantry 

*EvERETT, James D Lieutenant Infantry 

EnsleY, Enoch Major Field ."Artillery 

^Finlei , Neal B Lieutenant Infantry 

Ford. Charles Lieutenant Field Artillery 

F.ARLEY, Leonard E Captain Infantry 

Fisher, Ashley W Lieutenant Infantry 

Fox, George S Lieutenant Infantry 

Franklin, William E Lieutenant Aviation 

Givens, William J Lieutenant Infantry 

Gains, William F Captain Infantry 

Grantham, Frank D Captain Infantry 

Gunby, George Lieutenant Quartermaster Corps 

Granthum, Frank G Lieutenant Infantry 

Harris, Lee V Lieutenant Tank Corps 

Harding, Noah B Lieutenant Aviation 

Hooper, Hugh B Major Field Artillery 

HlMES. Isaac B Lieutenant Signal Corps 

Hutchinson, William G Lieutenant Field Artillery 

tHART. Leonard K Captain Infantry 

Howell. Crenshaw Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Harcrave, William W Lieutenant Infantry 

Heard. Robert G Captain Field Artillery 




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Heiskell. Hugh M Lieutenant Engineers 

Herndon, Omar S Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Heimphill, Allen P Lieutenant Infantry 

HavrON, Howard T Captain Infantry 

Harris, Lee Lieutenant Tank Corps 

Hopkins, Gordon A Lieutenant Engineers 

Hartley, Ernest G Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Hartman, Arnold Lieutenant Ordnance 

Hayes, Andrew Lieutenant Infantry 

HageR, Richard B Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Hall, Roland D Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Johnson, Will Lieutenant Infantry 

Joy, William M Captain Field Artillery 

JOYNER. Guy E Captain Field Artllery 

Jones, Saiviuel P Lieutenant Aviation 

King. Frank Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Knowlton, Milton L Major Infantry 

Key, John D Captain Field Artillery 

Killebrew, George W Lieutenant Field Artillery 

LuNDA, Fred P Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Long, JaiMES E Captain Infantry 

*Latham, Frank S Lieutenant Aviation 

Latham, SwayNE Lieutenant Field .Artillery 

LovELL, Clyde V Lieutenant Infantry 

Miller, Ashby Lieutenant Infantry 

McMuRRY, Charles T Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Mallory, Joseph D Lieutenant Field Artillery 

McBee, Silas Major Field Artillery 

McDonald, William P Lieutenant Quartermaster Corps 

McKay, Max C Captain Field Artillery 

MilTMORE, Albert G Lieutenant Quartermaster Corps 

Mitchell. Eugene C Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Morrison, Harold E Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Mainord, Hugh L Lieutenant Infantry 

McCollum, John L Lieutenant Infantry 

Milam, Robert M Major Field Artillery 

MlLLIKEN, Foster L Lieutenant Field Artillery 

McAdams, George W Lieutenant Infantry 

Nolan. John H Captain Infantry 

JOrr, Samuel K Liuetenani Infantry 

Oaks, Albert F Lieutenant Infantry 

Potter, Duncan M Lieutenant Aviation 

Phelan, Julian E Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Proudfit, Lucas Lieutenant Aviation 

PosTELL, John E Lieutenant Field Artillery 

PattON, Douglass J Lieutenant Field Artillery 

POULTER, William I Lieutenant Field Artillery 

PhILLIPPS, George Lieutenant Infantry 

Penn, Moss E Lieutenant Infantry 

Ransom, Joe R. T Captain Infantry 

Read. George Lieutenant Infantry 

*Reilly. Lloyd G. E Lieutenant Aviation 

RozIER, Jules B.. Jr Captain Field Artillery 

Rhea, James D Captain Infantry 

Ramsey, Ira A Captain Signal Corps 

Rice, Grantland Lieutenant Field Artillery 



Rodriguez, William D. H Lieutenant Field Artillery 

RlE, Paul A Lieutenant Infantry 

Sackett, Dayton P Lieutenant Machine Gun 

Stovall. John M Lieutenant Infantry 

Sanford, Edwin W Lieutenant Aviation 

ScHMiTT. William A Captain Infantry 

Scruggs. James C Captain Machine Gun 

Scruggs. James M.. Jr Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Simmons, Russell B Lieutenant Tank Corps 

Stanton, William M Captain Infantry 

Stewart, Willis T Captain Field Artillery 

Seabrook. William H Lieutenant Field Artllery 

*Sm1TH. Tillman H Lieutenant Infantry 

Sharpe, John B Lieutenant Infantry 

SwETMON, Daniel Lieutenant Infantry 

*Tate, Thomas S Lieutenant Infantry 

*Taylor. Herbert J Lieutenant Infantry 

Taylor, Walker M., Jr Lieutenant Infantry 

Trumbull. Walter S Captain Field Artillery 

Underhill, Harmon Q Lieutenant Infantry 

Underwood. Claude S Lieutenant Artillery 

Van Coorhis Lemart P Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Ware, Richard N Major Infantry 

Webster, Joseph D Lieutenant Infantry 

Watson, Dayton B Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Wells, Robert A Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Woodward, Harry M Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Whitman. Frank L Lieutenant Infantry 

Wenz. Marion R Lieutenant Infantry 

Walden. Leslie E Lieutenant Infantry 

ttWARDLE. Herbert A Lieutenant Aviation 

Watson. William T Lieutenant Field Artillery 

Welsh. Richard J Captain Infantry 

Wilkinson. Robert Lieutenant Infantry 

Williams. Auvergne Lieutenant Infantry 

Young, Edgar Captain Infantry 

The following promotions among the enlisted per- 
sonnel of the regiment were made since the signing 
of the armistice. No effort has been made to show 
the reductions by own request, or summary court, or 
the transfers from the regiment since that date. These 
promotions, almost without exception, were based on 
the personal record of the man during the actual service 
of the regiment at the front: 

REGIMENT SUPPLY SERGEANTS 
Egbert O. Ham. 

BATTALION SERGEANTS-MAJOR 
John J. Bouza William J. Nunnery 

Guy Mason SERGEANTS 

Herbert N. Acred Irbv R. Linderman 

William L. Beerman George D. Mitchell 

William W. Deas Clifford H. Moriarity 

George S. Hobbs 



*Killed In action. tDied of di; 



ttTak. 



en prisoner. 



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Eugene W. Adair 
Herbert Anderson 
James P. Anderson 
Green E. Adcock 
Pete Allen 
James S. Borders 
Van F. Bailey 
Oscar Baur 
MosE H. Cox 
Norton R. Campbell 
Hugh V. Clark 
Walter L. Davis 
Earl J. Duke 
Claude E. Durham 
Carl A. Dolsen 
LoNNiE Fennel 
Alfred M. Howard 
Robert J. Hamilton 
Elmer H. Hammer 
John P. Land 
Fred H. Latimer 



CORPORALS 

Dewey D. Loyd 
Charles P. Mooney 
Horace D. Marshall 
Benjamin F. Moore 
Hoy N. Mitchell 
Francis A. Morgan 
Charlie T. Nacle 
Herbert E. Petty 
Joseph M. Padgett 
SwEP Rogers 
Oswald P. Ranson 
Dayton P. Sorsey 
Ira L. Shellabarger 
William B. Staggs 
John W. Sanders 
George W. Stewart 
Wesley D. Thomas 
William C. Torian 
Frederick B. Vanderford 
Herman R. Waukel 



ASSISTANT BAND LEADER 
GuiDO Mori 

BAND SERGEANT 
Alcele J. Bernard 

BAND CORPORAL 

Ernest M. Luther 

The following men served with the regiment and 
are shown on the roster of February, 1919, but not 
on that of November 1 L 1918. Some of them were 
attending the Artillery School at Saumur, others were 
wounded or sick in hospitals, and others were on de- 
tached service at the time of the armistice. All of 
them, however, served with the regiment in the great 
war. Some of these names may appear on rosters of 
other companies or batteries in the regiment than shown 
below, the transfer having been effected within the regi- 
ment after the armistice: 

BATTERY A 
Collins, Dennis J„ Private, 24 Leon St., Roxbury, Mass. 
Dolsen, Carl A., Private, Isl Class, 1216 N. Breedlove 

Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 
Ford, Clyde M., Private, First Class, Ripley, Tenn. 
JuDD, John W., Sergeant, Gallatin, Tenn. 
Lamb, John B.. Private, 115 Kyle St., Memphis, Tenn. 
Martin, James A., Private, R. F. D. 7, Fayelleville, Tenn. 
Smith, Joseph F., Private, First Class, R. F. D. 6. Box 19, 

Mt. Airy, N. C. 



BATTERY B 

Crystal, Max, Private, 28 Ingleside St., Roxbury, Mass. 

Erzal, Rudolph A., Private, address unknown. 

Erickson, John S., Private, address unknown. 

Fluke, NcrALD J., Private, address unknown. 

Frederick, John J., Private, address unknown. 

Hoy, Willie T., Private, address unknown. 

Larson, John B,, Private, address unknown. 

Lemke, Edward, Private, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

McCallen, James F., Private, 1st Class, 2029 Oliver Ave, 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Manning, Charles W., Wagoner, 118 E. 8th St., Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn, 

Murray, Arthur, Private, 1st Class, 175 N. Main St., Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Russell, Luck, Private R. F. D. 3, Wingo, Ky. 

Sepauch, John H., Corporal, 1656 Glenview St.. Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Weisel, Lloyd S., Private, address unknown. 

BATTERY C 

Brackman, Fred C, Private, 601 Monroe Ave., Nashville, 

Tenn. 
Hudson, John C, Private, 1st Clas-.., 318 Johnson Ave., W., 

Terre Haute, Ind. 

BATTERY D 
Adcock, Greene, Private, 1917 West End Ave., Nashville, 

Tenn. 
Knox, Alexander, Private,, 1514 Paris Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
Lyle, Alshire, Private, Guthrie, Ky. 
Powell, Jesse T., Wagoner, 1004 Villa Place, Nashville, 

Tenn. 
Raidite, Lucarino, Private, address unknown. 
Ray, James, Private, 1714 Church St.. Nashville, Tenn. 
White, George W., Private, 47 Vassar St., Binghamton, 

Tenn. 

BATTERY E 
MoRARITY, Edward J., Private, 1279 Lamar Blvd., Memphis, 

Tenn, 

BATTERY F 
Howard, Ralph C, Sergeant, Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Howard, James A., Sergeant, Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 
Jackson, William M., Sergeant, Clarksville, Tenn. 

HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
Carey, Samuel D., Corpoial, address unknown. 
Holland, Hebrert V., Mechanic. Paris, Tenn. 
Ivy, Otha W„ Private, R. F. D. 7, Dandridge, Tenn, 
Knight, Harvie W., Private, Isl Class, Red Boiling Springs. 

Tenn. 
O'Connor, Thomas G., Sergeant, address unknown. 
Sullivan, Dan J., Musician, 2d Class, address unknown. 

SUPPLY COMPANY 
NuLAND, Joseph W., Private, Claysville, Ohio. 



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Citations for the 1 1 5th Field Artillery 



Headquarters I 1 5th Field Artillery 
Camp Jackson, S. C, 

April L 1919. 

GENERAL ORDERS No. 1 4 

1 . While every man in the regiment did his full duty 
and fulfilled his obligations as a soldier and an Ameri- 
can citizen throughout the great emci'gency, and while 
there are doubtless many acts of heroism, self-sacrifice 
and devotion to duty equally as deserving as those 
herein cited, which have not been brought to the at- 
tention of the Regimental Commander, the Regimental 
Commander takes pride in citing the following mem- 
bers of this command for soldierly qualities herein- 
after described: 

2. Lieutenant Colonel Willaim J. Bacon. 
For tireless energy, constant loyalty, devotion to 

duty and able leadership, at all times manifested 
throughout the emergency. 

3. Captain John D. Key. 

For able leadership and coolness under fire in a 
night gas attack made by the Germans on November 
5, 1918, near Heuberville, in which he was badly 
gassed. Although 600 gas shells were thrown on this 
Captain's battery, he remained at his post of duty with 
his men, and contmued firing the schedule. 

4. Captain Innis Brown. 

For exceptional merit and devotion to duty during 
the operations in the Argonne, October 2, 1918. 
Captain Brown volunteered for special work at the 
observation post, which was at that time under heavy 
shell fire. It was necessary for him to pass through 
an area which was being heavily shelled by the enemy 
before reaching the observation post, where he re- 
mained during the night of October 2nd, giving valu- 
able aid to our batteries until he was wounded by a 
shell fragment. 

5. Reg. Sergeant-Major John L. Scruggs. 

Headquarters Company. 
For devotion to duty and exceptional efficiency in 
handling the administrative affairs of the regiment 
throughout its entire period of foreign service. 



6. Bn. Sergeant-Major William J. Nun- 

nery, Headquarters Company. 
For devotion to duty and exceptional coolness while 
under shell fire. On September 30, 1918, Sergeant 
Nunnery on a reconnaissance party sent to locate bat- 
tery positions in the vicinity of Cierges, showed excep- 
tional coolness and determination of purpose that 
caused him to fulfill his mission even though the area 
over which he went was swept by enemy shell fire and 
was also subjected to machine gun fire. His object 
was attained, and he was of great assistance to this 
reconnaissance party. 

7. Corporal William H. Douglass, Head- 

quarters Company. 
For devotion to duty and volunteering for hazard- 
ous work. On October 26, 1918, Corporal Doug- 
lass was sent from Battalion Headquarters to the town 
of Wadonville, which was then held by our for\vard 
line of outposts, with a mission of locating a forward 
observation post in this town. This town was under 
direct obsei-vation of the enemy, and at that time was 
extremely dangerous to enter during the day time. 
Corporal Douglass entered this town and obtained the 
desired information, although it was being shelled at 
that time. The building that he selected in this town 
was shot down before he left the town, so he pro- 
ceeded to the town of Doncourt, which was also in 
our front line, to get the information he desired at that 
place. He was under direct observation of the enemy 
during this entire time, and the good work that he did 
was of great benefit to the battalion. 

8. Corporal Eular E. Ferguson, Battery B. 
For leadership and courage displayed on the night 

of October 6, 1918, while assisting with the move- 
ment of the guns after leaving the Argonne Forest, he 
had his horse wounded by shrapnel, but he and the 
men under his command continued and accomplished 
their task. Corporal Ferguson was later gassed by 
mustard gas in the Valley of the Woevre. 

9. First Lieutenant Dudley R. Patterson. 

For devotion to duty and inspiring leadership dur- 
ing the St. Mihiel offensive. This officer remained at 
his post as executive for seventy-two hours without 
sleep (from September 10 to 12, 1918), and again 




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during the battle of the Aigonne, September 25 to 
October 5, 1918. This officer deserves commenda- 
tion of the highest order, for by his personal example 
he instilled courage m all his men. 

10. Sergeant William N. Navlor, Bat- 

tery B. 
For devotion to duty during the St. Mihiel offensive. 
This non-commissioned officer remained at his post as 
Chief of Gun Section for seventy-two hours without 
sleep (September 10 to 12, 1918), and again dur- 
ing the battle of the Argonne (September 25 to Oc- 
ober 5, 1918). This non-commissioned officer de- 
serves commendation of the highest order for his per- 
sonal deprivation and disregard for self. 

11. Corporal John J. Guinozzo, Jr., Bat- 

tery B. 
For courage and faithful performance of duty. This 
corporal, while detailed in the forward observation 
post in the battle of the Argonne, advanced under con- 
tinued shell fire and mustard gas barrage, and as- 
sisted in repairing lines of communication with Bat- 
talion Headquarters, and did thereby render service of 
exceptional value by his coolness and courage. 

12. Pri\ate Charles S. Adams, Battery B. 
Private Thomas M. Adams, Battery B. 
Private Floyd A. Sparks, Battery B. 

For courage and faithful performance of duty. 
These men after having been seriously gassed by mus- 
tard gas, remained at their post of duty throughout a 
heavy attack. This on the night of September 27, 
1918. 

I 3. First Lieutenant Allan L. Campbell. 

(deceased.) 
For able leadership and devotion to duty on the 
night of September 12, 1918, near Noviant, Toul 
sector. This officer put a 155 m-m howitzer into an 
advanced position very near the enemy lines, which 
was a very hazardous and dangerous undertaking be- 
cause the road over which the gun was taken was 
being constantly shelled. In this shell fire Lieutenant 
Campbell, by the example of courage and devotion to 
duty, succeeded in quieting the fears of his men, who 
were under shell fire for the first time, and put his 
gun into position in time to accomplish his mission. 



1 4. Corporal Jesse L. Beeles, Battery C. 
Prinate George W. Stewart, Battery C. 
Private Richard Padgett, Battery C. 
Private Robert D. Pergerson, Bat- 
tery C. 

Private Clyde Briggs, Battery C. 

Private Joseph H. Onstott, Battery C. 

Private Martin Dicken, Battery C. 

Private William C. White, Battery C. 

Private William M. Sharpe, Battery C. 

Private Mitchell A. Garretson, Bat- 
tery C. 

Private Charles Brown, Battery C. 
For courage and faithful performance of duty. In 
that the above named men did on October I, 1918, 
haul ammunition from across roads southwest of Mont- 
faucon over a road under direct observation of the 
enemy, to the battery positions of Batteries B, D and 
F, 1 15th Field Artillery. The above men made re- 
peated trips over this road with ammunition in spite 
of the fact that they were continuously under fire. 
Shells frequently fell so close that dirt was thrown on 
the men and horses. 

15. Private David L. Mason, Battery D. 

For devotion to duty and gallantry in action dur- 
ing the operations north of Montfaucon, October 5, 
1918. This soldier in company with Private Arlie 
H. Ogle, on two occasions ran the telephone line be- 
tween the battery and the forward observation post, 
passing twice through a heavy German barrage. Hav- 
ing accomplished this task, they discovered that the 
wire had been cut by the barrage, whereupon they 
proceeded to repair the line. While so engaged Pri- 
vate Ogle was mortally wounded and died almost in- 
stantly, but Private Mason continued to repair the 
line, thereby enabling the batteries of his battalion to 
continue firing effectively. His conduct is worthy of 
the highest commendation. 

16. Private Arlie H. Ogle (deceased). Bat- 

tery D. 
For courage and faithful performance of a most 
hazardous duty. This soldier on two occasions as- 
sisted in running a telephone line between his battery 
and the forward observation post, and twice passed 
through the German barrage, which subseqently cut 
the line again. While repairing this break in the line 
this soldier, who was working in an open field with- 
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exploded a few feet from him. This soldier's devo- 
tion to duty and his spirit of self-sacrifice is worthy 
of the highest commendation. 

I 7. First Lieutenant Chas. T. McMurry. 

For devotion to duty, and for efficient services. 
During the operations in the Argonne Forest, from 
September 26 to October 5, 1918, this officer was 
on duty as Liaison Officer for this regiment. On the 
night of September 27th this officer volunteerd to act 
as a guide for an ammunition train which had lost its 
way, to guide them to the regimental ammunition 
dump. Although subjected to heavy shell fire, he 
showed utter disregard for his personal safety and 
conducted the train to its destination. Upon return- 
ing from said duty he was severely gassed, but refused 
to be evacuated until all communication was estab- 
lished. His devotion to duty is worthy of the highest 
commendation. 

18. First Lieutenant Harry M. Wood- 

ward. 
For devotion to duty and for efficient services. Dur- 
ing the operations in the Argonne Forest, from Sep- 
tember 26 to October 5, 1918, this officer was on 
Liaison duty for the Second Battalion of his regi- 
ment. This officer worked faithfully to maintain com- 
munication between the forward observation post and 
the command posts. These lines were constantly be- 
ing cut by shell fire and the work was extremely 
hazardous. By his devotion to duty and untiring ef- 
forts under the most trying conditions this officer has 
earned the highest commendation. 

19. First Lieutenant Harold E. Morrison. 

For devotion to duty and for efficient services. Dur- 
ing the operations in the Argonne Forest, September 
26 to October 5, 1918, this officer was on duty as 
Radio Officer for his regiment. This officer worked 
faithfully to maintain communication between the 
points of great importance, and constantly visited the 
Battalion Radio Stations under the most trying con- 
ditions. By his devotion to duty and untiring efforts 
under the most trying conditions this officer has earned 
the highest commendation. 

20. Bn. Sergeant-Major John J. Bouza, 

Headquarters Company. 
For courage and for faithful performance of duty. 
During the operations in the St. Mihiel offensive, from 
September 11 to 13, 1918, this soldier, then a pri- 



vate, was a messenger and constantly carrying orders 
of importance to points under shell fire, faithfully per- 
formed his duties at all times, and by his unfailing 
devotion to duty inspired great confidence in those 
about him. This soldier's devotion to duty is worthy 
of the highest commendation. 

21. Sergeant Albert J. Whitley, Head- 
quarters Company. 

Corporal Mack D. Bussey (deceased). 
Headquarters Company. 
For courage and for faithful performance of duty. 
During the operations in the Valley of the Woevre, 
east of the Meuse, from October 10 to November I 1, 
1918, the above named soldiers faithfully performed 
their duties as telephone linemen. On the night of 
October 27th these two soldiers constructed a tele- 
phone line under shell fire from Headquarters, Second 
Battalion, to the forward observation post. Their 
disregard of personal safety is worthy of the highest 
commendation. 

22. Sergeant Ernest P. Chockley, Head- 

quarters Company. 
Private Mack Dodd, Headquarters Com- 
pany. 
Private William M. Tucker, Head- 
quarters Company. 
For courage and for faithful performance of duty. 
During the operations in the Argonne Forest, from 
September 26 to October 5, 1918, the above named 
soldiers faithfully performed their duties as telephone 
linemen. On the night of October 3rd these three sol- 
diers constructed a telephone line under shell fire 
from Headquarters, Third Battalion, to the forward 
observation post. Their disregard of personal safety 
and devotion to duty is worthy of the highest com- 
mendation. 

23. Corporal Jesse D. Dixon, Headquarters 

Company. 
Corporal Charles P. Knaffl, Head- 
quarters Company. 
Corporal Wylie A. Cooke, Headquarters 
Company. 
For courage and for faithful performance of duty. 
During the operations in the Argonne Forest, from 
September 26 to October 5, 1918, the above named 
soldiers were messengers and constantly carrying or- 
ders of importance to points under shell fire. By their 
devotion to duty and untiring efforts under the most 



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trying conditions these three soldiers have earned the 
highest commendation. 

24. Corporal Frank M. Boswell, Head- 

quarters Company. 
Corporal Nat J. Alston, Headquarters 

Company. 
Prix'ATE Earl Orchard, Headquarters 

Company. 
For courage and for faithful performance of duty. 
During the operations in the Argonne Forest, near 
Montfaucon, on September 26 to October 5, 1918, 
the above named soldiers faithfully performed their 
duties as telephone linemen to maintain communica- 
tion between the regimental command post and the 
forward observation post. These lines were constantly 
being cut by shell fire and the work was extremely 
hazardous. By their devotion to duty and their un- 
tiring efforts under the most trying conditions these 
soldiers have earned the highest commendation. 

25. Regtl. Supply Sergeant Harry C. 

Merritt, Supply Company. 
For meritorious conduct and devotion to duty, in 
that he gave his services devotedly and unhesitatingly 
to carrying rations to the battery positions in the Ar- 
gonne Forest under heavy shell fire from September 
26 to October 8, 1918. 

26. Regtl. Supply Sergeant Karl G. 

Wymer (deceased). Supply Company. 
Regtl. Supply Sergeant Benton M. 
ToLLlVER, Supply Company. 
For devotion to duty and for efficient services, in 
that these soldiers performed the most meritorious and 
faithful services, involving hazard and deprivation, 
getting up much needed supplies for the regiment dur- 
ing its operations on the front. 

27. Corporal Joseph H. Baker, Supply 

Company. 

Wagoner Edward Buchanan, Supply 
Company. 

Wagoner Clyde Crews, Supply Company. 

Wagoner Samuel T. Harris, Supply 
Company. 

Wagoner William T. Willeford, Sup- 
ply Company. 

Wagoner Willie T. Branch, Supply 
Company. 



Wagoner William E. Hay, Supply Com- 
pany. 
Wagoner Jacob F. Harner, Supply Com- 
pany. 
For meritorious conduct and personal courage. 
These soldiers after carrying rations and forage to the 
different batteries in the regiment under heavy shell 
fire, assisted in caring for the wounded, and loaded 
their xvagons with wounded soldiers, carrying them 
back to Recicourt. On account of the traffic conges- 
tion ambulances were temporarily unable to perform 
this work. This occurred on the night of September 
28, 1918, in the Argonne Forest. 

28. Wagoner Willie T. Branch, Supply 

Company. 
For coolness under fire. This soldier, acting as 
chauffeur for an automobile, manifested absolute in- 
difference to personal danger when a shell exploded 
near his automobile, broke the wind shield, and shell 
shocked some of the passengers therein. 

29. First Lieutenant Matthew G. Rey- 

nolds, Jr. (deceased). 
For devotion to duty and able leadership. This of- 
ficer at all times manifested a high sense of duty and 
possessed exceptional efficiency, and his work on the 
front was always of the highest character, and is de- 
serving of the highest commendation. 

30. Second Lieutenant Vivton K. Mouser 

(deceased). 
For devotion to duty. This officer was badly 
gassed on the night of November 5th near Herbeu- 
ville. He remained on duty with his battery through- 
out the attack of that night, and participated in the 
advance made by his battery on November 1 0th, al- 
though still suffering from the effects of gas, to which 
he subsequently succumbed. 

31. First Sergeant James C. Guthrie (de- 

ceased). Battery F. 
For exceptional heroism, in that First Sergeant 
Guthrie, although he was mortally wounded, insisted 
upon attention being given to other wounded men be- 
fore he was removed from the field. 

32. Mess Sergeant Karl M. Kleeman, Bat- 

tery F. 
For extraordinary heroism. On the morning of 
September 27, 1918, near Avocourt, when three mem- 
bers of the battery had been mortally wounded, Ser- 



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Page Irvo hundred five 



geant Kleeman disregarded his own safety by remain- 
ing with these men. In spite of heavy shellmg he 
continued to attend these men as long as his services 
were needed. 

33. Private Clyde H. Buffaloe, Battery E. 
For conspicuous bravery near Avocourt on the 

night of September 28, 1918. Private Buffaloe as 
a telephone lineman, made repeated repairs on a line 
connecting Battery Headquarters with a Battalion 
Headquarters, under heavy shell fire, which constantly 
endangered his life. 

34. Sergeant Harry H. Tinkle, Battery E. 
Sergeant Tinkle rendered very valuable service in 

handling ammunition details in the Argonne Forest. 
At one time he and his detail spent forty-eight hours 
without food or sleep in bringing up ammunition to 
forward gun positions in the vicinity of Montfaucon, 
part of this time being spent under harassing shell fire. 

35. Sergeant Dexter S. Moore, Battery E. 
Sergeant Moore performed highly valuable cervices 

for the command in the handling of ammunition from 
the time the battery went into the line until sickness 
necessitated his evacuation to the hospital. In prepa- 
ration for the drive against the St. Mihiel salient he 
was on duty for seventy-two hours continuously before 
the begmnmg of this drive. Throughout his loyalty 
and devotion to duty was unsurpassed. 

36. Sergeant Richard R. Douglass, Bat- 
tery E. 

Sergeant Douglass was given the hazardous duty 
of carrying a roving gun onto the Woevre plains in 
the Troyon sector, with no defense between his gun 
position and the enemy save an occasional outpost. 
Throughout the entire service of the regiment this sol- 
dier at all times evinced a high sense of duty and devo- 
tion to the cause. 

37. Sergeant Paul S. Wolf, Battery E. 
For uninterrupted devotion to duty and loyal effort 

at all times. Sergeant Wolf's section had the dis- 



tinction of firing the first shot at the enemy fired by 
the regiment, and in at least two positions occupied by 
the battery his section was assigned a mission which 
subjected it to repeated fire of a highly damaging 
nature. 

38. Sergeant Joseph G. Hays, Battery E. 
Handling a gun section in the St. Mihiel drive, the 

Argonne offensive and in defense of the Troyon sec- 
tor. Sergeant Hays manifested a keen devotion to duty 
and a willingness at all times to undergo any and all 
hardships entailed in the performance of his duty. 

39. Sergeant Elgin H. Curry, Battery E. 
Sergeant Curry achieved the distinction of having 

fired every round in all operations in the schedule of 
fire assigned to his gun. His work in handling his 
section and his devotion to duty could not have been 
improved upon, leaving nothing to be desired. 

40. Sergeant Charles E. Reagin, Battery E. 
In charge of the signal detail. Sergeant Reagin's 

work was above reproach. One of the most impor- 
tant phases of artillery work, communications, was 
expected to prove highly troublesome. At all times 
Sergeant Reagin and his detail managed to keep all 
communications open, thereby rendering invaluable as- 
sistance to the battery in performing its various 
missions. 

41. Cook James E. Dudley, Battery E. 

In keeping with his good record throughout. Cook 
Dudley, together with Private William M. York, 
rendered especially valuable services in the beginning 
of the Argonne offensive. With an improvised kitchen 
within a few hundred yards of the gun position, the 
two worked both day and night providing hot meals 
for the gun crews during the strenuous work in serv- 
ing the guns. This service was rendered under dan- 
gerous shell fire. 

Harry S. Berry, 
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THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



Page Irvo hundred seven 



Station List of the 1 1 5th Field Artillery 

The following table shows the location of the Regimental Headquarters of the I I 5th F. A. while serving 
with the A. E. F. It does not show billets of all units of the regiment when it was necessary to distribute the 
batteries in different towns. 



Station 



Arrived 



Left 



Authority 



Regimental P. C. 
Stationed at 



Liverpool, England 

Romsey. England 

Southampton, England 

Le Havre, France 

Guer, Morbihon 

Toul 

Bois de la Ranie 

Bois de Menilla-Tour 

Beyer Farm 

Tulleries Farm- 

Sanzey 

Bernecourt 

Bouillionville 

Rambrocourt 

Boncourt 

Pont-sur-Meuse 

Belrain 

Serancourt 

Ippecourt - 

Rarecourt 

Bois de Fulcheres 

Montfaucon 

Avecourt 

Recicourt 

Woods (Name Unknown) 

Troy on - - --.. 

Bois de St. Remy 

Buzy 

Spincourt . 

Longuyon _ 

Mont St. Martin 

Esch, Luxembourg 

Leudelaigne - 

Con tern 

Lintgen .- : 

BofferdangC---- .-- 

Dippach _ 

Crusnes 

Mancteulles -.-- 

Chambley 

Euzevin 

Lucey 

Trondes 

Evron 

Bais 

Le Mans 

St. Nazaire 



June II, '18. 
June 12, 'IS 



June 

June 

June 

Aug. 

Aug. 

Aug. 

Aug. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Oct. 

Oct. 

Oct. 

Oct. 

Oct. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Feb. 

Mar. 



13, 'If 

14, 'If 
16, 'If 
27, 'If 

27, 'If 

28, 'If 



29, '18 
3, '18 
5, '18 
10, '18 
13, '18 
13, '18 
13, '18 
16. '18 
18, •18 



18, 
20, 



20, '18 

23, '18 

28, '18 

6, '18 

8, '18 

9, '18 
10, '18 
10, '18 

8, "18 

9, '18 

10, '18 

11, '18 

12, '18 

14. '18 

15, '18 
19, '18 

6, '19 

7, '19 

8, '19 

9, '19 

11, 19 

12, '19 

13, '19 
19, '19 
22, '19 
22. '19 

6, '19 
8, '19 



June II, '18. 
June 13, '18 



June 

June 

Aug. 

Aug. 

Aug. 

Aug. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Sept. 

Oct. 

Oct. 

Oct. 

Oct. 

Oct. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Dec. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Jan. 

Feb. 

Mar. 

Mar, 



13, '18 
15, '18.. 
25, '18.. 

27, '18 

28, '18 

29, '18 
3, '18.. 
5, '18 

10, '18. 
12, '18.. 

14, '18.. 

15, '18 

16, '18 

17, '18. 

18, '18 

19, '18 

20, '18 
23, '18. 
28, '18 

3, '18 



10, '18. 
10, '18 

8, '18 

9. '18. 

10, '18.. 

11, '18.. 

12, '18 . 

14, '18. 

15, '18 
19, '18 

6, '19 

7, '19 

8, '19 

9, '19. 

11, '19.. 

12, '19.. 
13, '19.. 
19, '19. 
19, '19 
22. '19 

6, '19 

7, '19 

13, '19 



V. O. C. G., 55th F. A. Brig 

Emb. Order No. 1 , American Rest 
Camp, Romsey 



V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. O. 
V. o. 
V. o. 
V. o. 
V. o. 
V. o. 
V. o. 
V. o. 
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V. o. 
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V. o. 
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V. o. 
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V. o. 
V. o. 
V. o. 
V. o. 
V. o. 
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V. o. 
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C. G. 
C. G. 
C. G. 
C. G. 
C. G. 
C. G. 
C. G. 
C. G. 



C. G. 
C. G. 
C. G. 
C. G. 



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C. G., 
C. G., 



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Base Sec. 



American Rest Camp, 
Romsey, England 



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F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

F. 

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h F. 
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F. A. B 
F. A. B 

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A. B 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 

A. 



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B 
B 
B 
B 



A. B 
A. B 
A. B 
A. B 
A. B 



A. B 
A. B 



A. B 
A. B . 
A. B . 
A. B 
A. B 
A. B 
A. B.. 
A. B 
A. B 



Camp No. 2 

Camp de Coetquidan 

Toul 

Bois de la Ranie 

Bois de la Ranie 

Boyer Farm 

Sanzey 

Sanzey 

Bernecourt 

Bouillionville 

Rambrocourt 

Boncourt 

Pont-sur-Meuse 

Belrain 

Serancourt 

Ippecourt 

Rarecourt 

Bois de Fulcheres 

Montfaucon 

Avecourt 

Recicourt 

Woods (Name Unknown) 

Troyon 

Bois de St. Remy 

Buzy 

Spincourt 

Longuyon 

Mont St. Martin 

Esch. Luxembourg 

Leudelaigne 

Contern 

Lintgen 

Bofferdange 

Dippach 

Crusnes 

Mancieulles 

Chambley 

Euzevin 

Lucey 

Trondes 

Evron 

Bais 

Le Mans 

Camp. No. 1 



Page Iri'o hundred eight 



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iOLONEL HARRY S. BERRY. Bom Nashville, Tenn. Married Miss Georgia 
C. Knox, of Washington, D. C, 1910. Children, Katharine K., and Nancy. At- 
tended Vanderbilt University. Graduate U. S. M. A., West Point, Class of 1904. 
Member Army and Navy Clubs, Washington and New York City ; Hermitage, 
Commercial and Golf and Country Clubs, Nashville; Elks and Field and Sea Lodge 
(Masonic). Farmer. Vice-President Middle Tennessee Farmers' Institute. State Commander 
American Legion, Department of Tennessee, 1919-20. Cadet West Point, 1900-04. Second 
Lieutenant 13th Cavalry, 1904-09. Service in Philippines and U. S. A. Resigned March I, 
1909. Captain 1st Tenn. Inf., 1909-10. Major Q. M. Dept., 1915. Member National 
Militia Board. Major 1st Tenn. Inf., 2d Bn., 1915-16. Colonel I st Tenn. Inf., 1916. Served 
on Mexican border wath regiment. Colonel 115th F. A. throughout its participation in European 
War. Returned to United States and mustered out with regiment April, 1919. Graduate School 
of Fire, Ft. Sill, Okla., 8th class; Brigade and Field Officers' School, San Antonio, Texas, 1st 
class; Center of Artillery Studies, Langres, France, being only National Guard office in 1st class 
at this school. Recommended for promotion to Brigadier-General. Brother, J. T. Berry, Lieuten- 
ant 41st Division. Address, Hendersonville and Nashville, Tenn. 



THE 55th field ARTILLERY BRIGADE 



Page trvo hundred nine 





^S^^^C^IEUTENANT- COLONEL WILLIAM J. BACON. Born Christian County. Ky. Mar- 
ried Miss Myrtle McGrain, December 9, 1915, at Memphis, Tenn. Attended Vanderbilt 
University, University of Arkansas and Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., L.L.B., C. U. 
Law School, 1905. Attorney-at-Law. State Senate Tennessee, 1911. City and Juvenile 
Court Judge, Memphis, Tenn., 1911-1914. Clerk of the Criminal Court, Shelby County, Tenn., 
1914-1918. State Secretary Tennessee Branch American Legion, 1919-20. Member Masonic bodies. Elks, 
Moose, W. O. W., Tennessee Club, Memphis Chamber of Commerce, St. Francis Hunting and Fishing Club, 
Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Commissioned 2d Lt., N. G. Tenn., staff C. O. 1st Sep., Bn. March 27, 1912; 
1st Lt., A. I. S. A. P., N. G. Tenn., November 6, 1914. Enhsted Company B, 1st Tenn. Inf., July 1 1, 
1916, at Nashville, Tenn. Commissioned Capt. N. G. Tenn., July 22, 1916, and assigned to command Ma- 
chine Gun Company, 1 st Tenn. Inf. Served on Mexican border with regiment. Answered call for European War, 
April 12, 191 7, as C. O. Machine Gun Co., 1st Tenn. Inf. Commissioned Major and assigned to command 1st 
Bn., 1st Tenn. Inf., July 14, 1917. Completed course of instruction for Field Artillery Officers' School of Fire, 

1918, 2d class. Sailed for France in command of Advanced School Detachment, 
Attended Artillery Schools at Valdahon and Coetquidan, France. Promoted 
1918. Served throughout war with 1 15th F. A. Cited in regimental orders for 
Commanded 1 15th F. A., August 23-September 30, 1918, through Occupation, 
Toul Sector, St. Mihiel Offensive, march across to Argonne and first phase of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. 
Also commanded regiment from November 20, 1918. to December 16, 1918. Served with 114th F. A., 
December 16, 1918, to January 17. 1919. Returned to United States and mustered out with 115thF. A., 
at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., April 30, 1919. Address, 1408 Carr Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 



Fort Sill, Okla., January 19, 
Il5th F. A., May 8, 1918 
to Lt.-Col. F. A., June 24, 
work with regiment at front. 



Page two hundred ten 



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COLONEL JOHN T. GEARY. Bom Lexinglon, Ky. Mar- 
ried Miss Eleanor Slaughter, Louisville, Ky., June, 1902. Children, 
John Jr., aged 15; Jerome. ag=d 12; Florence, aged 14. Graduate 
Kentucky University, '97. Class orator. Winner Intercollegiate Ora- 
torical Contest at Lexington, Ky., 1896. Admitted to practice of law 
at Lexington, July I, 1898. Member Pendennis Club and Audu- 
bon Country Club, Louisville, Ky.; Bohemian Club, San Francisco, 
Cal. Entered U. S. Army during Spanish-American War, being 
commissioned 2d Lt., C. A. C, July 9, 1898, by presidential ap- 
pointment. Served Boston, San Juan, Po;to Rico, San Francisco, 
Manila, P. I., and other stations. In addition to work as line officer, 
he has held many staff assignments and has served as Judge Advocate 
in many important military cases, being twice sent to Alaska to prose- 
cute embezzlers. At present he is Division Supply Officer, 1st Div., 
Camp Taylor, Ky. Served as Lt.-Col. 309th F. A., Camp Dix, N. J., 
Commanded I I 5th F. A., January to April, 1918. Promoted Colonel, 
May 16. 1918. Detailed to organize 70th Reg., C. A. C. Sailed 
for France in command of 70lh Reg.. C. A. C. July 15, 1918. and 
commanded this regiment unlil its demobilization. Participated in 
Meuie-.Argonne Offensive, with Army Motorized Artillery. Judge 
.Advocate's Office, Tours, France, after armistice. Commanded Heavy 
Artillery School Angers, France. Returned to United Slates, July 
27, 1919. Permanent address. Camp Taylor, Ky. Brother, Ambrose 
Geary, graduated Reserve Officers' Training Camp, Fort Benjamin 
Harrison, and commissioned Captain, serving as Assistant Adjutant, 
Camp Dodge, Iowa. 



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MAJOR HUGH BRAXTON HOOPER. Bom Nashville, 
Tenn. Unmarried. Attended Grammar and High Schools, Nash- 
ville, Tenn.; School of Fire for Field Artillery, Ft. Sill, Okla.; Artil- 
lery Training School, Camp Coetquidan, France. Member Military 
Order of Foreign Wars of the United States, Elks, Knights of Pythias, 
32d Degree Scottish Right Masons. Engineer, U. S. Engineering De- 
partment. Answered call of President, April 13, 1917. Promoted 
1st Lt., Inf., N. G., Tenn., June 19, 1917. Commanded Co. G, 
1st Tenn. Inf., July 18 to September 13, 1917. Commanded Bat- 
tery D, 115th F. A., September 14, 1917, to September 20, 1918. 
Promoted Captain F. A.. U. S. Army, November 26, 1917. Pro- 
moted Major October 31, 1918. Commanded 2d Bn., 115th F. A., 
September 21, 1918, February 1, 1919. Transferred to 18th F. A., 
3d Div., Army of Occupation, Germany. February 1, 1919. Com- 
manded 2d Bn., 18th F. A., February 10, 1919, until mustered out 
of service as Major F. A., at Camp Dix, N. J., June 4, 1919. 
Served with Ist Tenn. Inf., in Mexican border call, 1916-1917. Prior 
service with Cos. A, E and K, 1st Tenn. Inf., N. G. 




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MAJOR BUFORD N. DUNNAVANT. Bom Osceola. Ark. 
Married Mis5 Julia Semmes, of Memphii, Tenn. Children, Buford 
N., daughter, aged 8 years; H. Clay, aged 5; Leonard W., aged 3. 
Attended Peabody High School, Little Rock, Ark., 1900; Memphis 
Hospital Medical College, Class 1906. Surgeon. Enlisted service in 
Medical Department. N. G., Tenn., 1904-1906. Commissioned service, 
N. G., Tenn., 1906-1916, continuous except from January, 1914, to 
May, 1915, in grades of 1st Lt., Capt. and Major. Called for service 
on Mexican border, June, 1916, w;tli Tennessee Ambulance Co., No. 
1. grade of Captain. Commissioned Major and assigned as Regi- 
mental Surgeon Isl Tennessee Infantry, on reorganization of this regi- 
ment, August 3, 1916. Served in this capacity and with this regi- 
ment until regiment was changed into 115th Field Artillery, Septem- 
ber 14, 1917. Sailed for France with this command and served with 
It until ordered on detached service, August 26, 1918. Stationed at 
Le Mans, sFrance, on detached status with 83d Division, 2d Depot 
Division, until December II, 1918, when returned to United States. 
Home address. 237 Buena Vista Place, Memphis, Tenn. 




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MAJOR HARR'l' C. WILDER. Bo.n Caithage, N. Y. Mar- 
ried. Wife Mrs. Isabel H. Wilder; son. H. C. Wilder, Jr., born 
Jan. 19, 1919. A.B. Amherst College, 1913; also Phillips Exeter 
Academy, and graduale New 'V'ork Electrical School. President 
Northern N. Y. Development League and Chamber of Commerce. 
Malone. N. ">'. Member Masons. Elks, Alphi Del'a Phi fraternity. 
First Lieut. Engineer R. C, Mar. 1. 1917. Caplain F. A. R. C. 
Aug. 15. 1917. Major 309lh F. A. May 7, 1918 ' Graduale Ft. Sill. 
Okla.. School of Fire for Field Artillery Officers; Meuccn, France, 
Artillery School. Adjutant 309th F. A. and 153d F. A. Brigade. C. 
O. 1st Battalion. 309th F. A. Toul defensive and St. Mihiel offensive 
with 90lh Division. Meuse-Argonne offensive with 78th Division. 
Sedan advance, 6lh Div., C. O. 1st Bn.. I8lh F. A.. 3d Division 
march to the Rhine. Military-Civilian Governor. Polch District. C. O. 
2d Bn.. Il5lh F. A. Returned to Uniled Slates with ll5:h F. A. 
and mustered out oT service at Ft. Oglethorpe. Ga. President Pioneer 
Products. Inc., New York City; Treas. Malone Light & Power Co., 
Malone, N. Y.; Treas. Old Line Coal Co. Home address, Malone, 

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CAPTAIN RAY C. REEVES. Born Joliet. III. Married Miss 
Frances Nixon at Memphis.. Tenn.. MarcS 25, 1909. Children, 
Martha Virginia, a^ed 9; Rae Frances, aged 5. Attended Memphis 
High School. Salesman. Continuous service in National Guard of 
Tennessee since April 4, 1905. Served al Reelfool Lake in 1908 
Night Rider trouble. Commanded Supply Co., 1 st Tenn. Inf., on 
Mexican border. Answered call of President April 12, 1917, with 
Isl Tenn. Inf. Sailed overseas with 115th F. A., and served through- 
out war with that organization until February 1, 1919, when trans- 
ferred to 3d Division. Army of Occupation of Germany. Assigned 
to 10th F. A. Attended American E. F. University al Beaune, Cote 
D'Or, France, from March 8 to June 11, 1919. Sailed for U. S. 
June 15, 1919. Home address. 319 Lewis St., Memphis, Tenn. 



CAPTAIN JOHN D. KEY. Born Jackson. Tenn. Married. 
Attended Jackson High School, Union University, Jackson. Tenn.. 
and University of Tennessee. Served seven years with Tennessee 
National Guard. Enlisted upon call for Mexican Border Service. 
K. Co., Jackson. Commissioned 2d Lt. at Nashville Mobilization 
Camp, and assigned to Machine Gun Company, 1st Tenn. Inf., July 
22. 1916. Served with this organization on the Mexican border, al 
Eagle Pass, Tex. On the reorganization of the 1st Tenn. Inf., com- 
missioned Captain and assigned to command K Company, Jackson, 
Tenn. Commanded A and E Batteries, \\5l\ F. A. Attended 
School of Fire for Field Artillery, Fort Sill, Okla. Home address, , 
Jackson, Tenn. 




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CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. APPERSON. Bom Memphis, Tenn. 
Attended University of Tennessee and Mississippi Agricultural and 
Mechanical College. Civil Engineer. S. A. E. Fraternity. Enlisted 
Forrest Rifles, Co. L, 1st Tenn. Inf.. N. C, February 15. IS05. 
Promoted from private lo Ist Lt., serving both as a line and staff 
offics" li same regiment. Servtd in ReelfoJl Lak ■ Night Ride 
trouble, October 24, 1908, lo June 16, 1909. Mustered out of service 
with L Co.. 1913, and commision-d 2d Lt. M C:>.. same reg'ment. 
Resigned 1914 and enlisted Co. G. 2d Separate Battalion, Miss. 
N. G. Discharged Miss. N. G.. enlis-ed M Cx, hi Tern. Inf. 
Answered call President for Mexican Border Service as Supply 
Sergl., M Co., Ist Tenn. Inf. Promo'ed 2d Lt. August 30, 1916. 
assigned to B Company. Served through emergency. Responded to 
call of President April 12, 1917, for European War. Promoted Ist 
Lt., F. A., at Camp Sevier, and assigned lo 1 1 5th F. A., and assigned 
to Battery A. Promoted Captain F. A. and assigned to command 
Headquarters Co., 115th F. A. Sailed for France May 8, 1918. 
with Advanced School Detachment. I 1 5th F. A. Attended training 
camps for Field Artillery al Valdahon and Coetquidan, France. 
Adjutant and Operations Officer. 115th F. A., at front. Trans- 
ferred lo 3d Division. U. S. Army of Occupation of Germany. Janu- 
ary. 1919. At own request transferred to 35lh Division and assigned 
to command Biltery A. 130th F. A. Returned la United Slaves with 
this organization and mustered out of service al Camp Taylor. Ky.. 
May 23, 1919. Address, 810 E. Main St., Clinton, III. Brother, 
John W. Apperson, 2d Ll., F. A. Wounded while serving 42d 
Division, 149th F. A. Brother, George P. Apperson, R. O. T. C, 
Davidson College, N. C. 





CAPTAIN WALLACE WHITFIELD RIDDICK. Bom 

Raleigh, N. C. Married Miss Ella Haynsworth, of Greenville, S. C. 
1918. One child, Wallace W. Riddick, Jr.. born 1918. Attended 
Wake Forest College and North Carolina Stale University, graduat- 
ing with degree of B.E. from the la"er institution. 1916. Cadel 
Stale College, 1915-16; 2d Ll. North Carolina Engineers. N. G.. 
May. 1917; 1st Lt. 105th Engineers. 30th Division. July. 1917; trans- 
ferred 115th F. A.. October. 1917; promoted Captain January, 1918. 
Served through the war with this regiment. Attended School of Fire 
for Field .Artillery, Ft. Sill, Okla. Commanded Battery C, 115th 
F. A. Home address. West Raleigh. N. C. 



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CAPTAIN ANDREW J. DONELSON. Born Memphis, 

Tenn. L.L.B., University of Tennessee, 1913. Lawyer. Member 
Lawyers' Club, Memphis. K. A. Fraternity. Enlisted December 12. 
1915, B Company, unattached, N. G. Tenn., "Chickasaw Guards." 
Served with this company, which became 1 Co., Isl Tenn. Inf., 
taroughoul the Mexican border (rouble. Commissioned 2d Lt., 1 1 5lh 
F. A.. November 27, 1917; 1st Lt., December 22, 1917; Captain, 
May 23, 1918. Sailed for overseas and served throughout the war 
with 115th F. A. Commanded Battery F throughout the emergency. 
Returned to United States and mustered out with organization, April 
14, 1919. Brother, Frank T. Donelson, Captain 81sl Division. Home 
address, 1133 Poplar Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 



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CAPTAIN J. GEORGE DOBIE. Born Newark, Wayne Co.. 
New York. Unmarried. C. E. Syracuse University, 1911. Con- 
struction Engineer. Member Knights of Columbus. Graduated as 
1st Lt. 2d Officers' Training Camp, Fort Niagara, N. Y. Assigned 
to 115th F. A. Sailed for France and served throughout the war 
wilh this organization. Promoted Captain and served most of the 
time at the front as Adjutant of the 2d Batallion. Attended train- 
ing camp at Coetquidan, France. Returned to United States wilh 
regiment and mustered out of service with it. Home address, 407 
North Geddes St., Syracuse. N. Y. 




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CAPTAIN HUGH E. BUCKINGHAM. Born Memphis. 
Tenn. Unmarried. Attended Memphis PubHc Schools and Mem- 
phis University School. Banker. Member Memphis Country Club 
and Chickasaw Club. Enlisted I Co., "Chickasaw Guards." 1st Tenn. 
Inf., March 6, 1917. Transferred to Machine Gun Co., 1st Tenn. 
Inf., and served on Mexican border with this con)pany. being pro- 
moted to grade of 1st Sergeant. Answered call of President, April 
12, 1917, for European War as 1st Sergt. of this company. Com- 
missioned 2d Lt.. same company. June 20. 1917. Transferred at 
Camp Sevier, S. C. with entire company to 113th M. G. Bn. When 
regiment was changed to 115th F. A., November 26, 1917, trans- 
ferred to 1 15th F. A. at own request. Promoted 1st Lt. F. A.. 
March 2, 1918. Sailed with Advanced School Detachment 115th 
F. A., May 8, 1918. Attended Training Schools at Camps du Valda- 
hon and Coetquidan, France. Promoted Captain 115th F. A., Octo- 
ber 7, 1918. Adjutant 3d Bn.. Intelligence and Orientation Officer 
August 16 to armistice. Commanded Battery A. 115th F. A., Decem- 
ber 12, 1918, to April 12. 1919, when mustered out of service with 
regiment at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga. Prepared firing data and fired first 
problem of regiment in the European War at Manonville, France, 
Augu5l 27, 1918, using gun of Battery E. Brother Henry L. Buck- 
ingham. Pvt. Marine Corps Bombing Squadron, six months foreign 
service. Home address, 593 South Orleans St., Memphis. Tenn. 





CAPTAIN EDWARD BAXTER SWEENEY. Bom Paris. 
Tenn. Married Miss Kennie Porter, of Paris. Tenn. Children, 
Jean Howell, aged 7; Sue Annie, aged 4; Edward B., Jr., aged 18 
months. Attended High Schools at Paris. Tenn.. and Manila, P. 1.; 
L.L.B., Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.. 1910. Attorney-at- 
Law. Appointed Adjutant-General of Tennessee, April 26, 1919. 
Commissioned 1st Lt. 2d Tenn.. Inf., N. G., June 20. 1917. Pro- 
moled Captain and assigned to command Battery E., 1st Tenn. F. A., 
July 25, 1917. Tbis regiment changed to 1 1 4th F. A., at Camp 
Sevier, S. C. Sailed overseas with this regiment. Transferred to 
115th F. A., at Camp Coetquidan, France, June 21. 1918. Adjutant 
2d Bn. Assigned to Headquarters Co., 115th F. A.. September 7, 
1918, and comamnded this company through the St. Mihiel drive and 
Argonne Offensive. October 8, 1918, ordered to School of the Line 
at Langres, France. Graduated December 28 and joined 115th F. A. 
at Lintgen, Luxemburg. Assigned again to command of Headquar- 
ters Co.. at Bais, France, and continued in that capacity until return 
to United States and mustered out of organization at Ft. Ogle- 
thorpe, Ga.. April 14. 1919. Home address, Paris, Tenn. 



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CAPTAIN CHARLES LEE NEELY. Born Bolivar, Tenn. 
Unmarried. Attended Bolivar, Tenn., High School, Mooney School, 
Murfreesboro, Ttnn., and University of Mississippi, Oxford. Repre- 
sented Shelby County in the Tennessee Legislature in the sessions of 
1913 and 1915. Divorce Proctor for Shelby County, Tenn., since 
1915. Altorney-at-Law, offices 1130 Exchange Building, Memphis, 
Tenn. Member of Masonic Order, Modern Woodmen of America, 
Ow!s, Lamar-Magnolia Civ c CluS, an J ih <I> K ■>]' Frnt'inity. 
Enlisted 1st Tennessee Infantry (N. C.) March 24, 1912; 2d Lt., 
May 17. 1914; 1st Lt., July 11, 1916; 1st Lt., 115th F. A. Sep- 
tember 14, 1917; Captain, 115th F. A., November 3, 1918, to muster 
out of service Aprd 14, 1919. All military service with the same 
regiment. Commanded Headquarters Co.. Supply Co.. and Battery 
B. 115th F. A. 



CAPTAIN JOHN FITE ROBERTSON. Born Lebanon, 
Tenn. Unmarried. Attended Castle Heights School, Lebanon, Tenn., 
September, 1903, to June, 1911; Cumberland University, Lebanon, 
Tenn, September, 1911. to June 1913; University of Virginia, Sep- 
tember, 1913, to January, 1915; Cumberland University Law School, 
1915-1916. Atlorney-at-Law. Appointed 2d Lt. 2d Tenn. Inf., July 
23, 1917. When 2d Tenn. Inf. was broken up at Camp Sevier, 
was transferred to 1st Training Bn., 55th Depot Brigade, and from 
this organization, on October 27, 1917, to 115th F. A. Served 
throughout the war with this regiment. Promoted 1st Lt. April 3, 
1918. Promoted Captain February 23. 1919. In command of Bat- 
tery D, 115th F. A. from September 17, 1918, to December 20. 
1918, and received pay of Captain during this period. Mustered 
out at Ft. Oglethorpe with regiment April 14, 1919. Home address. 
Lebanon. Tenn. 




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CAPTAIN JULES B. ROZIER, JR. Bom St. Louis. Mo. 
Unmarried. Graduated Memphis University School. 1905; Cornell 
University, 1906-'07, Mechanical Engineering;. Enlisted Company I. 
1st Tenn. Inf. (Chickasavs' Guards), December 22, 1915. Answered 
call for Mexican border service, June, 1916, and served on the 
border, same organization, with grade of private. Corporal and Ser- 
geant. Answered call of President for European War April 12, 
1917. Appointed Ist Sergt. Company I. Commissioned 2d Lt., July 
14, 1917; promoted Ist Lt. November 22, 1917. Sailed with Ad- 
vanced School Detachment, 1 1 5lh F. A., May 8, 1918. Attended 
Training Schools at Valdahon and Coelquidan, France. Served 
throughout the war witS the 115lh F. A., as Battery Commander, 
Executive and Officer. Promoted to Captain February 23, 1919. 
Returned to United States and mustered out with regiment at Ft. 
Oglethorpe. Home address, 1 584 Carr Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 






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CAPTAIN CHARLES A. BENDER. Born Memphis. Tenn. 
Married Miss Bessie Love Odum, Memphis, Tenn.. at Greenville, 
S. C, January 5, 1918. Daughter, Mane Bender, born while Cap- 
Iain Bender was overseas. Physician. Address, 2080 La Salle St., 
Memphis, Tenn. Graduate University of Tennessee Medical Depart- 
ment, 1917, University of Mrssissippi. Posl-Graduale course Uni- 
versity of Paris, France (Sorbonne) ; member Inter-Allied Track 
Field Team, 1919; Alpha Kappa Fraternity. Surgeon 105th Trench 
Mortar Battery. November 28. 1917, May 1. 1918. Assistant Sur- 
geon and Regimental Surgeon 115th F. A., May 2, 1918, to Feb- 
ruary 26, 1919. Promoted Captain Medical Corps, February 23, 
1919. Student Medical Officers' Training Camp, Ft. Oglethorpe. Ga., 
September 1 to November 26, 1917. Volunteered for service June, 
1917. Sailed for France June 4, 1918. Arived in U. S. July 

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CAPTAIN FELIX T. LANIER. Born Osceola, Ark. Mar- 
ried Miss Pauline Ford, Nashville, Tenn. Attended Memphis High 
School. Residence, 1120 James Si., Memphis, Tenn. Ten years 1st 
Tenn. Inf.. N. G., as Pvt., Sgt., Lt. and Captain. One year Capt. 
1 1 5ih F. A. Sailed for France with regiment June 4, 1918. Com- 
pleted course of instruction at Camp Coetquidan, Morbihan, France. 
Returned to United Stales as Instructor N. A., serving U. S. Mili- 
tary Academy at West Point, N. Y., and Camp Knox, Ky. At- 
tended School of Fire for Field Artillery, Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Com- 
manded Battery B, 115th F. A. Commanded Co. C. 1st Tenn. 
Inf., on Mexic.in border. Recommended for promotion to Major, 
but not commissioned in that grade on account of armistice. 



CAPTAIN BERNARD W. DePIERRE. Born Nashville, 
Tenn. Unmarried. Attended City Schools and Montgomery Bell 
Academy, Nashville, Tenn. Clerk U. S. Postoffice. Enlisted Co. 
K., 1st Tenn. Inf.. June 9, 1909. Commissioned 2d Ll. March 3, 
1916. Promoted 1st Lt. July 3, 1916. Served on Mexican border 
with 1st Tenn. Inf. Promoted to Captain, June 19, 1917. Trans- 
ferred from 115th F. A. to Infantry of 30lh Division. After arriv- 
ing in France was assigned to special duly at G. H. Q., with Postal 
Express service. Served in France from June II, 1918. to July 5, 
1919. Discharged July 18. 1919. Two brothers in service during 
European War. Home address, Nashville, Tenn. 




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CAPTAIN EDWARD M. KINNEY. Bom Covington, Tenn. 
Unmarried. E.nlisled 1*^04 1 st Tennessee Infantry, N. G., served in 
ihis organization until it was changed into Field Artillery at Camp 
Sevier, being promoted from private to Captain. Commanded Com- 
pany B of that regiment, on the Mexican border. At own request, 
transferred to Infantry, 30th Division. Resigned the service February 
12, 1918. Reinstated September II, 1918. Permanent address, Mem- 
phis, Tenn. Served with Tennessee National Guard throughout the 
Night Rider trouble at Feelfoot Lake, Tennessee, October 24, 1903, to 
January 16, 1909. 




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Lines to a Howitzer 

Lieut. Grantland Rice, in New York Tribune 



Tilt up your long, black, ugly snoul 

And let it lift against the sky, 
For when you bark your message out 

We hear the roar of Freedom's cry ; 
We've done with quibble and debate 

Here, where the Hun line looms in view. 
And out beyond the call of fate 

We've turned the answer back to you. 

No one might call you, at your best, 

A thing of beauty, pal of mine; 
Your low squat form is hardly blest 

With any grace that's near divine; 
You're not an ornament for home. 

You'd never make an artist cheer, 
But wheresoever I may roam 

I only hope that you are near. 



You're stupid looking — if ihey will — 

A triHe dull and all of that; 
But when they want some distant hiil 

Turned into level ground — or flat — 
Or when they want some Hun-bred crew 

Ground into sausage, near or far. 
My little bel goes down on you 

Against whatever odds there are. 

^ ou may be sullen, as ihey say, 

A lop-eared grouch, or even worse, 
But when they need an open way 

Before the doughboys start to curse. 
Or where, beyond the massing men. 

They need some one to slam the lid. 
We know we'll get the answer when 

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LIEUTENANT DUDLEY R. PATTERSON. Born Reid, Miss. Un- 
married. B.A. Mississippi College, 1917. Served with Mississippi National 
Guard. May to November, 1917, as Sergeant Battery E, Isl Mississippi 
Field Artillery. Commissioned 2d Lt. Field Artillery Reserve Corps. No- 
vember 27, 1917. Assigned to 115th F. A., at Camp Sevier, S. C, and 
served through the European War with this regiment, chiefly m Battery B. 
Promoted 1st Ll. Cited in Regimental Orders for gallantry in action. Home 
address, Houlka, Miss. 



LIEUTENANT RICHARD BUCKNER HAGER. Born Ashland, 

Ky. Married October 5, 1912. to Miss Lulie Tate Fall, of Nashville, Tenn. 
Son, John F. Hager, born April 7, 1914. Attended Virginia Military In- 
stitute, U. S. Military Academy. West Point; Vanderbilt University. Nash- 
ville. Tenn.. and Amhurst University. Was coach of the V. M. I. and 
Montgomery Bell Academy football teams, and assistant coach at Vander- 
bilt University and Washington University (St. Louis. Mo.). Member 
S. A. E. Fraternity and Masonic Lodge, Nashville Commercial Club. Noel- 
ton Country Club, Nashville Golf and Country Club. Enlisted 115th F. A.. 
Camp Sevier. S. C. October 23. 1917. Commissioned 2d Lt., F. A., Octo- 
ber 30. 1917. Promoted 1st Ll. March 1. 1918. Sailed for France and 
served throughout the war with the ll 5th F. A., serving m Batteries F, E, 
and C. Regimental Gas Officer. August 28-October 8, 1918. Brother, 
John F. Hager, Jr., 1st Ll., 42d Inf. Home address, 3822 Whitland Ave., 
Nashville, Tenn. 





LIEUTENANT FRED P. LUNDA. Born St. Louis, Mo.. Decem- 
ber 8. 1892. Unmarried. Heating Contractor. Address 388 Avalon Place. 
Memphis, Tenn. Private Co. L, 1st Tenn. Inf., March 14, 1912; Sergeant 
Co. C, 1st Tenn. Inf., May 30, 1913; 2d Lt, Co. C, 1st Tenn. Inf., June 
11, 1916; 1st Lt. F. A.. March 7, 1918. Served with 1st Tenn. Inf. 
throughout the Mexican border call. 1916-1917. at Eagle Pass. Texas, and 
with 115th F. A. overseas. Participated in 1st Army Defense of Toul 
Sector, the St. Mihiel Offensive. Meuse-Argonne Offensive, and Offensive 
of the Second Army. November 10-11. 1918. With 3d Division in Army 
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LIEUTENANT GEORGE WHITAKER BROWN. Born Gray- 
ion, W. Va. Unmarried. Attended West Virginia University. Salesman 
BOH Fraternity. Masonic Lodge. Attended 2d Officers' Training 
Camp, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. Commissioned 1st Lt., F. A-, Novem- 
ber 27, 1917. Assigned 341st F. A., 164th Brigade. 82d Division, Camp 
Funston, Kansas. Instructor in charge of 164lh Brigade, School of Fire for 
N. C. O.'s. Transferred Artillery Replacement Depot, Camp Jackson, 
April 20, 1918. Transferred Camp Sevier, S. C, May 12, 1918, and 
assigned to 115lh F. A., Battery F. Sailed for overseas and went through 
the war with this regiment and battery. Transferred February 20, 1919, 
to A. E. F. University, Beaune, France, serving there as assistant to the 
Property Officer and Supt. of Buildings and Grounds. At close of univer- 
sity commanded school detachment of 350 men on journey to Coblenz, Ger- 
many. Sailed for U. S. June 28, 1919. Mustered out of service at Camp 
Sherman, Ohio, July 24, 1919. Home address. Wheeling, W. Va. 





LIEUTENANT FRANK G. CALLANDER. Born Osceola, Iowa. 
Married. B.A., 1912, L.L.B., 1914, State University of Iowa. Commis- 
sioned 2d Lt. Ordance Reserve Corps, November 15, 1917. Called to 
active duty January 4, 1918. Attended Ordnance Motor Schools until April 
29. 1918. Assigned to 351st F. A. Landed in France June 27, 1918. 
Transferred to 115th F. A., December 10, 1918. Promoted 1st Lt. Ord- 
nance-Corps, February 23, 1919, at Le Mans, France. Home address, 
526 Polk Boulevard, Des Moines, Iowa. 



LIEUTENANT WILLIAM S. LYON. Born Louisville, Ky. Un- 
married. Student Yale University. Member Plainfield, N. J., Country 
Club. Member Yale Battery, 1916. Enlisted R. O. T. C. August. 1917. 
Commissioned 2d Lt., F. A., Fort Meyer, Va., November, 1917. Trans- 
ferred Camp Jackson and from there to Camp Sevier and assigned lo 115th 
F. A., Battery D. Sailed overseas with regiment and served with it through- 
out the war, entire service with Battery D. Recommended for promotion, 
upheld by armistice. Returned to United States and mustered out with 
I 15th F. A. Home adddress, 939 Madison Ave., Plainfield, N. J. 



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LIEUTENANT HOWARD N. SCARFF. Born New Carlisle, Ohio. 
Unmarried. B.S. in Horticultural course, Ohio State University. Nursery- 
man. Sergeant with Battery D. 324th F. A.. September 5. 1917. lo January 
5, 1918. Attended 3d Officers' Trainmg Camp. Sherman, Ohio. Commis- 
sioned 2d Lt.. F. A., June I, 1918. Attended Saumur Artillery School, 
France. June 1, to September 5. 1918 Assigned lo 115th F. A.. Sjptember 
15. Served through the war with this regiment, returning to the United 
Sta'es and bemg mustered out with it at Fort Ogle'horpe, Ga., April 24, 1919. 
Biother, M. M. Scarff attended O. T. C, Camp Taylor, Ky. Permanent 
nddress. New Carlisle, Ohio. 



LIEUTENANT HERBERT BEECHER HUDNUT. Bom Port 
Jervls, N. Y. Unmarried. Graduated Princeton University, A.B.. 1916. 
Attended 1st Officers" Training Camp, Fort Harrison, Ind.; commissioned 
2d Lt., Q. M. C, August 15, 1917, Motor Transport Branch. Transferred 
lo Field Artillery January 1. 1918, and assigned lo 115th F. A. Sailed 
May 8, 1918, with Advanced School Detachment, ll5lh F. A. Attended 
Training Camps at V'aldahon and Coetquidan. France. Detached service 
with 8th Balloon Co., August 20-November 13, 1918. Balance of service 
with 113lh F. A. Home address, 245 North Heights, Youngstown, Ohio. 





LIEUTENANT JOHN R. BOERSMA. Born Chicago. 111. Un- 
married. Attended University of Michigan, College of Engineering. Stu- 
dent. Entered service September 20, 1917. Attended 3d Officers' Training 
Camp, at Camp Custer, Wyo., January 2 to April 19, 1918. Sailed for 
France May 23, 1918. Saumur Artillery School, France, June 6 to August 
29, 1918. Commissioned 2d Lt., and assigned to ll5lh F. .A., September 
12, 1918. Served throughout the war with this regiment, returned to United 
States with it and mustered out of service April 29, 1919. Home address, 
77 Commonwealth Ave., Detroit, Mich. 



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LIEUTENANT GEORGE M. SCHWARTZ. Born Oakfield. Wis. 
University of Wisconsin, B.A., 1915; M.A., 1916. Geologist. Unmarried. 
Cadel Corps, University of Wisconsin, 1911-12. Enlisted 3d Officers' 
Training Camp, Camp Grant, January 8, 1918. Commissioned 2d Lt., F. A , 
as of June 1, 1918. Embarked for overseas service May 23, 1918. At- 
tended Saumur Artillery School, France, June 10-Seplsmber 1, 1918. As- 
signed to 115th F. A., and reported to Battery E. September 15, 1918. 
Served throughout the war with this regiment and returned to United States 
with it. Mustered out of service April 12, 1919. Brother, Lawrence T. 
Schwartz, service July 24, 1918, to May 8. 1919. Served with 111th Inf., 
28th Div., as Pit. Isl CI.. October 10-November 11, 1918. Home address, 
Byron, Wis. 





LIEUTENANT EDWIN B. ARNOLD. Born Lake Geneva. Wis. 
Unmarried. Pharmacist. Attended Lake Geneva High School and grad- 
uated University of Wisconsin, \9\\, Ph.G. Alderman City of Lake Ge- 
neva. Member Masonic Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery. Served 
as Pvl. and Sergeant 1st Wisconsin Cavalry. N. G.. until regiment changed 
into 120th F. A., 32d Division. September 28, 1917. Trained at Camp 
McArthur, Waco, Texas. Sailed March 3. 1918. Landed Liverpool, Eng- 
land, March 10, 1918. Assigned Saumur Artillery School. France. May 
1 . 1918. Commissioned 2d Ll., F. A., August 1 . 1918, and assigned to 
Tractor Artillery School. Served as Instructor at Organization and Train- 
ing Centers, Tractor Artillery, C. A. C, Nos. I and 3. from September 
4 to December 21. 1918. Joined 115th F. A. at Lintgen. Luxemburg, De- 
cember 31, 1918, and served with this regiment until return to United States 
and muster out of service April 12, 1919, at Camp Grant, 111. Home ad- 
dress. Lake Geneva. Wis. 



LIEUTENANT JOHN JOHNSON. Born Donnelley. Mmn. Un- 
married. Graduated Lincoln High School. Seattle. Wash.. 1910. Special 
course in Law at University of Washmgton. Entered service September 19. 
1917; 1st Sergeant 313th Trench Mortar Battery, November, 1917. At- 
tended 3d Officers' Trainmg Camp, at Camp Lewis, Wash. Transferred 
Camp Jackson, S. C, and sent overseas. Finished course at Saumur Artil- 
lery School, France, and commissioned 2d Lt., F. A., as of date June 1. 
1918. Assigned I 15th F. A., joined September. 1918. and served through 
war with this organization, returning to United States and being mustered out 
of service with it. Home address. 1923 Eloise Terrace, Seattle, Wash- 
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LIEUTENANT HERBERT K. LARAMORE. Born Knox, Indiana. 
Unmarried. B.S.A., Purdue University, .1915. Agriculturist, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. Member Masonic Lodge, Alpha Leta and Acacia 
(Masonic) Fraternities. Enlisted 3d Officers' Training Camp, Camp Sher- 
man, Ohio, January 5, 1918. Assigned Headquarters Co., 323d F. A. 
Promoted Sergeant and transferred to Camp Jackson, S. C, May 5, 1918. 
Sailed May 23, 1918, landed Bordeaux, France. Assigned Saumur Artillery 
School; graduated and commissioned 2d Lt., June 1, 1918. Assigned II 5th 
F. A., joining September 6, 1918, and serving throughout the war with 
that regiment. Returned to United States and mustered out of service with 
organization at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., April 29, 1919. Father, Charles Lara- 
more, in Civil War. Brother, George D. Laramore, Spanish-American War. 



LIEUTENANT CHARLES F. SANBORN. Born Moville, Iowa. 
Unmarried. B.S. in Engineering, Iowa Stale College, Ames, Iowa. Build- 
ing construction. Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. Enlisted January 5, 1918. 
Graduate 3d Officers' Training Camp, April 20, 1918. Sailed for France 
May 23, 1918. Graduate Saumur Artillery School, France, August 25, 
1918. Commissioned 2d Lt. F. A., as of June 1, 1918. Assigned to 115th 
F. A., September 14, 1918. Served throughout the war with this regiment 
in Headquarters Co. and D Batteries. Returned to United Slates and 
mustered out of service with regimental detachment at Camp Dodge, Iowa, 
April 10, 1919. Brother, Sergeant W. L. Sanborn, Jr., served eighteen 
months in France with the 4th Balloon Co., and was at the front from July, 
1918, to armistice. Permanent address, 3733 7th Ave., Sioux City, Iowa. 





LIEUTENANT RUSH S. DAMUTH. Bom Vallisca, Iowa. Un- 
married. Attended Ames University, Iowa. Member Masonic Order. 
Graduated Saumur, France, Artillery School, April, 1918. Served with 
339lh F. A., 88th Division. Joined 115th Field Artillery September 1, 
1918, assigned to Battery B. Took part in all battles and defensive actions 
of the regiment. Home address, 101 W. Valley Street, Red Oak, Iowa. 



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LIEUTENANT FOSTER MILLIKEN, JR. Born New York, N. Y. 
Unmarried. Attended Hill School and Ransselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
New York. Engaged in manufacturing business. Member Racquet and 
Tennis Club and West Side Tennis Club and D. K. E. Fraternity. Private 
February, 1916, to February, 1917, 1st Armored Motor Battery, N. Y., 
N. G. May, 1917, to October, 1917, Section 22 of Horlon Harjes Ambu- 
lance Service. Attached to 63d Division of French Army, which was at 
Verdun for the fall drive of 1917. Attended Officers' Training Camp at 
Leon Springs, Tex., January to April, 1918, and assigned to 115lh F. A. as 
Sergeant on completion of the course, being commissioned a 2d Lt. in that 
organization May. 1918, and serving through the war with the regiment. 
Admitted to Base Hospital, classified "D" and returned to United States on 
S. S. Northern Pacific. Discharged February, 1919, at Camp Meade, Mary- 
land. Home address, 55 John St., New York, N. Y. 





LIEUTENANT HARRISON L. TAYLOR. Born Westfield, N. J. 
Unmarried. Attended Westfield High School and Lawrenceville Prepara- 
tory School. Engaged in hardware manufacturing. Member Atlas Lodge 
No. 125, A. F. and A. M., Westfield Golf Club and Philo Club. Served 
on Mexican border, 1916-17, with New Jersey N. G. Commissioned 2d 
Lt. F. A., Section O. R. C, Fort Meyer, Va., November 27, 1917. De- 
tached service Leon Springs, Tex., F. A. Replacement Depot, Camp Jack- 
son, S. C. Assigned 115th F. A., May 13, 1918. Sailed overseas and 
served throughout the war with this regiment. Recommended for promotion 
to 1st Lt., held up by armistice. Commissioned Isl Lt., O. R. C, May, 
1919. Mustered out of service with regiment April 1919. Permanent ad- 
dress, 649 4lh Ave., Westfield, N. J. 



LIEUIENANT THOMAS A. CUNEO. Born Memphis, Tenn. 
Married Miss Zadie Scruggs, Memphis, Tenn. Attended Memphis City 
Schools and University of Tennessee. Enlisted 1st Tenn. Inf., N. G., May 
30, 1911. Commissioned 2d Ll., May 20, 1915; 1st Lt., July 24. 1917. 
Served on Mexican border with regiment and answered call of President 
for European War, April 12, 1917. Transferred from 115lh F. A. to 
117th Inf. at own request, October 24, 1917, and sailed with this regiment 
and served with it until June 24, 1918, when assigned to Purchasing De- 
partment, A. E. F., and sent to Italy for duty. Completed course in Lewis 
Automatic Rifle and Musketry at 4th Army School (British). Was recom- 
mended for promotion to Captain, but held up on account of armistice. 
Two brothers, John Cuneo, 50lh Inf., and Aldine F. Cuneo, 152d Inf., were 
in service. The latter brother died at Le Harve, France. October 22, 1919. 
Home address, 164 Overton Ave.,, Memphis. Tenn. 




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LIEUTENANT JULIUS A. GUNTHER. Born Louisville, Ky. 
Unmarried. Attended IViooney School, Murfresboro, Tenn.; University of 
Tennessee; University of South, Sewanee, Tenn. Member Memphis Coun- 
try Club and Memphis Chamber of Commerce. Cotton Merchant. Resi- 
dence 924 Peabody Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 2d Lt., 1st Tenn. Inf., Co. 
I, and Supply Co., from call in 1916 for Mexican border service until regi- 
ment changed into 115th F. A. Served Headquarters Co., 1 1 5th F. A., 
until transferred to Infantry N. A., February 19, 1918. Promoted to 1st 
Lt., and assigned Instructor National Army, serving at Ft. Niagara and Camp 
Dix. Member 1st Provisional Training Battalion, Plattsburg, N. Y., 1915. 
Helped organize Co. I, 1st Tenn. Inf., "Chickasaw Guards," and served 
with this company as 2d Lt. on the Mexican border, 1916. Brother, Geqrge 
J. Gunther, 1st Lt. F. A., Camp Taylor, Ky. Brother, Ernest L. Gunlher, 
Lt. Commander U. S. Navy. 



LIEUTENANT JAMES M. SCRUGGS, JR. Born Memphis, Tenn. 
Unmarried. Attended Fitzgerald and Clarke School. Tullahoma, Tenn.; 
Webb School, Bell Buckle. Tenn. Clerk. Enlisted May I, 1917, Machine 
Gun Co., 1st Tenn. Inf. Transferred to Battery B, 115th F. A., when 
regiment was changed into artillery. Promoted Corporal and sailed May 
8, 1918, with Advanced School Detachment. Attended Artillery School, 
Valdahon, France. Rejoined regiment at Coetquidan June 24, 1918, and 
served through the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives as gunner of 
first piece of Battery B. Sent to Saumur Artillery School October, 1918. 
Finished course and commissioned 2d Lt. Field Artillery and assigned to 
I7lh F. A., 2d Division at Coblenz, Germany. Returned to United States 
May, 1919, for muster out of service. Home address, 1483 Monroe Ave.. 
Memphis, Tenn. 





LIEUTENANT HARRY M. WOODWARD. Born Barnwell, 
S. C. Unmarried. Civil Engineer. Attended Barnwell High School and 
Clemson College. N. G., S. C, 1908-1911, grades from private to Sergeant. 
N. A., September-October, 1917. Transferred to 1 15th F. A. Commis- 
sioned 2d Lt., December 31, 1917, and assigned to Headquarters Company, 
115th F. A., as Telephone Officer. Sailed with Advanced School Detach- 
ment and attended Training School at Valdahon, France. Served through- 
out the war as Bn. and Acting Regimental Telephone Officer, 115th F. A. 
Cited in Regimental Orders for efficiency at front. Promoted Isl Lt., Feb- 
ruary 23, 1919. Assigned to attend school. 



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LIEUTENANT MATTHEW GIVENS REYNOLDS. JR. 

Born St. Louis. Mo. Married Miss Mary Louise Hubachek at 
Minneapolis, Minn., July, 1916. Entered 2d Plattsburg Officers* 
Training Camp, August, 1917. Graduated as 2d Lt. Detached 
service at Leon Springs, Texas. Joined I 1 5th F. A., at Camp 
Sevier. S. C. Promoted 1st Ll., and sailed for France with regiment 
and served throughout war with it. Cited in Regimental Orders for 
bravery in action. Died at Echternach, Luxemburg. January 5. 1919, 
of pnuemonia and buried there. Brother, Clarke Reynolds, Lt.-Col., 
Staff 3d Army. A. E. F.; Robert Reynolds. 1st Lt.. served in 
France. Father. Matt. C. Reynolds. St. Louis, Mo., graduate of 
Annapolis Naval Academy. Widow. Mrs. Matthew G. Reynolds, 
Jr.. 156 Waverly Place. New York. N. Y. 





LIEUTENANT VIVION KEMPER MOUSER. Born Flat 
Lick. Ky.. April 20. 1895. Attended Preparatory Schools. Randolph- 
Macon. Va.. 1910-12; Kentucky Military Institute, graduating 1914; 
Phillips Exeter Academy, Andover, Mass.. 1914-15. Entered Uni- 
versity of Michigan. 1915, resigning to volunteer for European service. 
May, 1917. Member S. A. E. Fraternity. Attended 1st Officers' 
Training Camp at Ft. Sheridan, 111.; transferred to Camp Lee, Va., 
passed examination for admission Saumur, France, Artillery School at 
Camp Jackson, and sailed for France, May. 1918. Graduated from 
Saumur Artillery School and commissioned 2d Lt., August, 1918. 
Assigned to 115th F. A., and served through Meuse-Argonne Of- 
fensive and Woevre with this regiment. Gassed in action near St. 
Remy. France. November 5th and 10th. and evacuated to hospital. 
Rejoined regiment on the march into Germany as a part of the Army 
of Occupation. Died at Trier. Germany, of pnuemonia, January 7, 
1919, and is buried there. Cited for bravery by regimental com- 
mander. Father. Otis Mouser, Big Stone Gap, V^a. 



LIEUTENANT JAMES AARON PIGUE. Born Nashville, 
Tenn., October 16. 1833. Attended Webb School. Virginia Military 
Institute. Lexington. Va.; McClain's. N. Y.; U. S. Naval Academy, 
Annapolis, Md. While at Annapolis he was selected as one of six 
men to accompany Gen. Wm. C. Gorgas to Panama, for important 
work in the Canal Zone. He served eighteen months with Admiral 
Badger, U. S. N., in the Mediterranean, and did scout duty with 
the North Atlantic fleet. He enlisted in the 1st Tenn. Inf. when 
the Mexican border trouble arose and was commissioned 2d Lt. in 
Company F, of that regiment. He was promoted to 1st Lt, and 
shortly after the regiment was changed into artillery at Camp Sevier, 
at his own request, transferred to the 59th Inf. Brigade of the 30th 
Division, preferring that arm of the service. He sailed overseas with 
this brigade and was killed m action on the morning of July 18. 
1918, being the first battle death in the 30th Division. Father, E. H. 
Pigue, 2017 Belmont Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 




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LIEUTENANT ALLAN LILE CAMPBELL. Born Hunis- 

ville, Ala., December 3, 1897. Unmarried. Attended Public Schools 
at Nashville, Tenn., winning on competitive examination a scholarship 
in the Montgomery Bell Academy of that city. Graduated High 
School Lynchburg, Va.. and attended Columbia University, N. Y. 
Member Lynchburg Country Club, Elks, Captain Y. M. C. A. basket 
ball team and member choir of St. Paul s Church, Lynchburg. Va. 
Served several years m Virginia N. G. Attended 1st Officers' Train- 
ing Camp, Fort Meyer, Va.. graduated 2d Ll.. and assigned to Camp 
Sevier. S. C, where he joined the 115th F. A. Promoted 1st Lt., 
May, 1918. Sailed for France. May 8, 1918, with Advanced School 
Detachment. II 5th F. A. Attended Training Camps at Valdahon 
and Coetquidan, France. Served through the war with the 1 ] 5th 
F. A., service chiefly with C and E Batteries. Cited by regimental 
commander in orders for bravery under enemy fire. Was recom- 
mended for captaincy, but the armistice prevented this promotion. 
Died of pneumonia at Trier, Germany, January 8, 1919, and is 
buried there. Mother, Mrs. Allan R. Campbell. University, Va. 



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Additional Officers of the 1 1 5th Field Artillery 



Major Aubrey R. Bunting Born Philadelphia, Pa. At- 
tended Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia. A.B. Princeton 
University, 1909. Second O. T. C, Ft. Oglethorpe, Aug. 27- 
Nov. 27, 1917. Capl. Comdg. Bty. D., lOlh F. A., Jan. 1- 
Nov. 12, 1918. Major Com'dg. 2nd. Bn. 10th F. A., Nov. 
16, 1918-Jan. 14, 1919. Transferred to 115lh F. A. and 
returned to United States and mustered out at Ft. Oglethorpe. 
Participated with 3rd Division in Marne, St. Mihiel, and 
Meuse-Argonne offensives. Army of Occupation of Germany 
Dec. I, 1918-Jan. 14, 1919. Cited in regimental orders for 
distinguished services in action. Address, Wister Road, Ard- 
more. Pa. 

Major Henry Almy Howe. Born South Orange, N. J. 
Unmarried. M.E. Stephens Institute of Technology. A B 

Yale. 1909. R. O. T. C. May 15-August 15, 1917, Capt 
307th F. A. Aug. 15, 1917-Oci. 24, 1918. Major 307th F A 
Oct. 24-Nov. 17, 1918. Major 76th F, A. Nov. 17, 1918- 
Jan. 13, 1919. Transferred to 115lh F. A. Returned to 
United States and mustered out with this regiment. Address, 
194 Riverside Drive, New York City. 

Major Enoch Ensley. Born Memphis, Tenn. Married 
Miss Helen Oliver, of Memphis, Tenn. Child, Helen O. 
Ensley. B.A. University of South, Sewanee, Tenn. Capt. 
F. A. Nov. 27, 1917; assigned to 3d Ammunition Train. 
Assigned to 1 15th F. A. Jan. 14, 1919. Promoted Major F. A., 
Feb. 23, 1919, at Le Mans, France. Returned to United 
States and mustered out with this regiment. Address, 1584 
Peabody Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. 

Captain Albert Moore. Bom Shelby County Tenn 
Married Miss Ruth Simmons, Jan. 29, 1918. Child, William 
Winborn, aged 6 months. Four children by former marriage, 
Dabney, aged 15; Carrie Eugenia, aged 13; Mary Ella, aged 
II, and Yates Collier, aged 9. Newspaper writer. Member 
Masonic bodies and Elks. Twenty years N. G. Tennessee 
May, 1898-May, 1899, 4th Tenn. Volunteer Infantry, service 
m Cuba. Mexican Border service with Isl Tenn. Inf., 1916- 
1917. First Lt. and Capl. 115th F. A., Sept. 14, 1917-May 
26, 1918. Commanded Battery A, 115lh F. A. Captain Inf. 
y. S. A., May 29, 1918-Feb. 6, 1919. Instructor Service of 
Supply, Fort Niagara, N. Y., training camp. Address, 
Buntyn, Tenn. 



Captain Albert Kenneth Condee. Born San Bernardino, 
Calif. Unmarried. Attended Los Angeles High School. Re- 
ceived commission as First Lt. Nov. 27, 1919, 2nd. O. T. C, 
Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. Acted as executive. Battery F, 18th F. A., 
from Dec. 14, 1917, until Nov. 13, 1918. Promoted Capt. 
Nov. 12, 1918. Commanded Battery E, I8lh F. A., Nov. 
13, 1918-Jan. 15, 1919. Transferred to 115th F. A. Returned 
to United States and mustered out with regiment. .Attended 
F. A. school during service with 18th F. A. Attended train- 
ing school for artillery at Coelquidan, France. Address, 1855 
W. 21st St., Los Angeles, Calif. 

Captain Edward R. Wood, Jr. Bom, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Unmarried. Attended Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, Pa. 
M.E. Cornell Univ. 1897. Attended Plattsburg Business 
Men's liaining camps, 1915-16. R. O. T. C. Ft. Oglethorpe, 
1917. Capt. F. A., assigned to 18th F. A., U. S. A., Nov. 
26, 1918-Jan. 15, 1919. Assigned to 1 1 5lh F. A. Returned 
to United States and mustered out with regiment. Address 
409 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Captain Hugh Milton Fulchum. Bom Nashville, Tenn. 
Unmarried. Attended Memphis University School. Attended 
2d training camp, Ft. Oglethorpe, Aug. 27-Nov. 27, 1917. 
Assigned iOth F. A., Dec. 15, 1917-Jan. 15, 1919. Partici- 
pated in Marne, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives with 
3d Division. Transferred to 115th F. A., Jan., 1919. Re- 
lumed to United Stales and mustered out with regiment. Ad- 
dress, 1688 Autumn Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Captain William T. Adaivis, Jr. Born Corinth, Miss. 
Wife, May Pearl Adams. Children, Virginia and Pearl Scott 
Adams. Litt.B., Princeton University, 1909. Attended 2d 
O. T. C, Leon Springs, Tex., Aug. 27-Nov. 27, 1917. Cap- 
tain 344th F. A. Dec. 15, 1917-Jan. 16 1919. Transferred 
115th F. A. Returned to United Slates and mustered out with 
regiment. Address, 425 Main St., Corinth, Miss. 

Captain Ernest Winfred Breihan. Native of Texas. 
Unmarried. B.S., M.S., and M.D. University of Texas. Com- 
missioned Isl Ll. M. C, July 16, 1917. Promoted Captain 
M. C, Nov. 14, 1918. On duty with 3d Division Sept. 1, 
1917-Jan., 1919. Transferred to 115th F. A. Returned to 
United States and mustered out of service with this regiment. 
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Lieutenant Beverly Van Warren Estill. Born Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky. Wife, Caroline Straub Eslill. Child, Caio- 
line Edith. Attended University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 
M.S. Kanawha Military Inst.; Kentucky Military Institute, 
1889-1897; M.D. University of Louisville. Ky. (Hospjtal Col- 
lege of Medicine). Corp. Company C. 1st Ky. Vol. Inf.. 
serving in Porlo Rico. Color Sergt. 1st Battery Artillery, Lou- 
isville, Ky., 1901-1903. Served as Isl Ll. M. C. in European 
War. Mustered out with 115th F. A. Address, Louisville, 
Ky., or Jamesburg, N. J. 

Lieut Joseph Francis Yates. Born Philadelphia, Pa. 
Unmarried. Attended St. Joseph's Preparatory School and Col- 
lege, degree A.B., 1914. University of Pennsylvania Military 
Schools, 1906-1910. Commissioned 1st Lt. and assigned 336th 
F. A., 1917-1919. Transferred to 115th F. A. Returned to 
United States and mustered out with regiment. Address. 2408 
W. Lehigh Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Lieutenant Edwin Micheuer Finletter. Born Phila- 
delphia, Pa. Unmarried. Attended Wharton School, Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, and Law School, University of Pennsyl- 
vania, L.L.B. National Guard of Pennsylvania, 1910-13. 
Second R. O. T. C. Ft. Oglethorpe, 1917. lOlh F. A., De- 
cember 15, 1917-January 15. 1919. Transferred to 115th F. 
A., returninn to United States and being mustered out with it. 
Address, 6707 Cresheim Road, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Lieutenant Reginald E. Spivey. Born Madison County, 
Miss. Unmarried. Deputy Clerk. Chancery Court, Madison 
County. Miss. University of Mississippi, 1912-14. Attended 
2d O. T. C Leon Springs. Texas. 1917. Commissioned 1st 
Lt. and assigned to 10th F. A.. 1917. Transferred to 115lh 
F. A., January, 1919. Returned to United States and mus- 
tered out with regiment. Address, Canton, Miss. 

Lieutenant Paoli Ashe Smith. Born Marshall. Texas. 
Unmarried. B.A.. University of Alabama. 1911. Ft. Mc- 
Pherson Training Camp. May 15-Auoust 15. 1917. Int. Div.. 
August 15-November 5. A. G. Div.. November 5. 1917-August 
31. 1918. Saumur Art School. September 1 -November 30. 
1918. 115th F. A.. December 3. 1918. 1st Lt., F. A. Re- 
turned to U. S. and mustered out with regiment. Address. 
College St.. Columbus. Miss. 

Lieutenant H. D. Payne. Born Leonardlown, Maryland. 
Unmarried. U. of Mo., 1913-17. U. of Mo. Cadet Corps. 
1914-15. Leon Springs. 2d T. C. D. S. with A. S. S. C. 
January 1 -April 20. 1918. F. A. R. D.. Camp Jackson. S. C. 
April 4-May 11, 1918. Transferred to I15lh F. A., serving 
through the war with this organization. Commissioned 1st Lt.. 
November 27. 1917. Address. Leonardlown. Maryland. 

Lieutenant Norman Penney. Born Buffalo. N. Y. Un- 
married. Univ. of Cleveland. O.. 1908-10. Nichols School. 
Buffalo. N. Y., 1910-12. Yale Univ.. 1912-14. Rensselaer 
Polytech., 1914-17, C. E. Attended 2d T. C, Fort Niagara, 
N. Y. Commissioned 1st Lt., F. A. R. C, November 27, 
1917. Assigned 301st F. A., December. 1917; April. 1918. 
F. A. R. D.. Camp Jackson. S. C. Transferred to 115lh F. 
A. Served throughout the war with this regiment. Address. 
54 Hodge Ave.. Buffalo, N. Y. 

Lieutenant Patrick John Lydon. Bom Boston, Mass. 
Unmarried. A.B., Boston College. 1904; St. John's Theo- 
logical Seminary. December. 1908. Commissioned 1st Lt.. and 
Chaplain. October 1. 1917, and served with 10th F. A. until 
January 15, 1919, when transferred to 115th F. A., returning 
to U. S. and being mustered out with this regiment. Marne, 
St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives with 10th F. A. 
Address, 35 Falcon St., East, Boston, Mass, 



Lieutenant Lee Wheeler Baldwin. Bom Winchester, 
Ky. Unmarried. Winchester High School and Kentucky 
Wesleyan College. Platlsburg, T. C. May 11 -November 27. 
1917. Leon Springs. Texas. December. 1917-April. 1918. 
Columbia, S. C. Camp Jackson, and transferred to 115th F. A. 
Sailed overseas and served with 115th F. A. until transferred 
to staff of C. G., 55th F. A. Brigade. Address, 420 S. Maple 
St., Winchester. Ky. 

Lieutenant William Dudley Gale. Born Nashville, 
Tenn. Unmarried. Attended Public Schools. Nashville. Wal- 
lace University School. Sewanee Military Academy, 1913-14, 
University of South. Attended 2d O. T. C, Ft. Oglethorpe, 
Commissioned 2d Lt.. and assigned 18th F. A.. December 15, 

1917. Served throughout the war with that regiment. Trans- 
ferred to 115th F. A., January, 1919. and returned to U. S.. 
and mustered out with that regiment. Address, 207 Independent 
Life Bldg., Nashville, Tenn. 

Captain Innis Brown. Born Franklin, Tenn. Wife, 
Mrs. Evelyn Brown; son, Richard Brown. B.A., Vanderbili 
University. 1906. Newspaper writer. Three months. Platts- 
burg (Zd Camp). August 27-November 27, 1917; one month, 
309th F. A.; twelve months, 115th F. A. Sailed for France 
with Advanced School Detachment and attended Artillery 
School at Valdahon, France. Commanded Battery E, 1 1 5th 
F. A. Wounded in Argonne Offensive. Cited in Regimental 
Orders for bravery under fire. Home address. Franklin, Tenn. 

Captain Amos E. Shirley. Born Camden, N. J. Married 
Miss Annie Wilkins. Graduated Camden High School. Two 
years at Colby College, Watcrville, Me. Accountant. Mem- 
ber D. K. E. Fraternity. Enlisted March. 1917, 1st N. J. 
Engineers. Attended 1st Officers' Training Camp. Ft. Meyer. 
Va. Graduated August 14. 1917. and commissioned 2d Lt. 
Assigned Camp Lee. Va.. 320th Inf. Reassigned to Camp 
Sevier, S. C, K Co., Isl Tenn. Inf. Remained with regiment 
when it was changed into artillery and was assigned to E Bat- 
tery. Promoted 1st Lt., November 27, 1917. Sailed for 
France with regiment and served throughout the war with it. 
Promoted Captain, July 29, 1918, and assigned to command 
B Battery, 115th F. A. Commanded this battery throughout 
active operations at front. Home address, 633 Pearl St., Cam- 
den, N. J. 

Captain Otis Wilborn Dressler. Born Worcester, Mass. 
Wife. Elizabeth F. Dresslar. B.S.. C.E.. University of Ala- 
bama. 1914. Entered Training Camp, August. 1917. 1st Lt., 
November 27, 1917. Instructor, 3d O. T, C, Ft. Oglethorpe, 
Ga., C. O. Battery A, 5th Bn., F. A, R. D., Camp Jackson, 
S. C., May, 1918. Transferred to 115th F. A., serving as 
1st Lt. in Battery A, Hq. Co., and Bn. Adjutant, August 28 
to December 21, 1918. Sailed overseas and served through- 
out the war with the 115th F. A. Promoted Captain August 
28, 1918, and assigned as Adjutant Ist Bn., 115th F. A. 
C. O. Hq. Co., 115th F. A.. December 22. 1918. to January 
26. 1919. Transferred to 2d Div.. January 27. 1918. Home 
address, 2501 Belmont Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Captain Thomas G. Bard. Bom Hueneme, Cal. Married 
Miss Annie C. Deveau ; son, Thomas R. Bard, 5 years of age. 
Attended Pasadena High School, 1900-02, Washington School, 
Washington, D. C, 1902-04. Enhsted D Battery, 115th F. 
A.. January 27. 1918. Commissioned 2d Lt.. February 22, 

1918. Promoted Isl Lt., June 13, 1918. Sailed overseas and 
served throughout the war with 115th F. A. as Battery Officer 
and Officer in Supply Company. Promoted Captain. February 
23. 1919. Returned to United States and mustered out with 
regiment. Address. Samis, Ventura Co.. Cal. 



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Lieutenant Maurice Anson Thorne. Born Minneapolis, 
Minn. Unmarried. Atlended Maryland Stale College. May, 
1914.April, 1917, N. G., District of Columbia. Naval Militia, 
1st Class Elec. Three years Military School. Attended Of- 
ficers' Training Camp, May to August, 1917. Commissioned 
1st Lt., assigned 115th F. A. Sailed with Advanced School 
Detachment and attended Artillery School at Valdahon, 
France. Served throughout the war with II 5th F. A. as 
Executive and Battery Officer. Address, College Park, Mary- 
land. 

Lieutenant Aura R. Bradley. Bom Pond Creek, Okla. 
Unmarried. Graduate Baker University, 1915, A.B. Post- 
graduate work University of Kansas, 1915-1916. High School 
Principal. Commissioned 2d Lt., 1 si Officers' Training Camp, 
Fort Riley, Kans., assigned to 340th F. A. Transferred to 
F. A. R. D., Camp Jackson, S. C, May 1, 1918. Trans- 
ferred 115th F. A., May 15, 1918. Promoted 1st Lt., No- 
vember 6, 1918. Sailed and served throughout the war with 
the 115th F. A., serving as Battery Executive and Battery 
Officer. Address, 818 W. 4th St., Joplin, Mo. 

Lieutenant Grantland Rice. Born Murfreesboro, Tenn. 
Married Miss Kalherine Mollis, Americus, Ga. Florence Da- 
venport Rice, daughter. Attended Vanderbilt University. 
Writer. Member the Players and Englewood Country Clubs, 
New York, N. Y. Enlisted 1 1 5lh F. A., December, 1917. 
Commissioned 2d Lt., and promoted to 1st Lt., 115th F. A. 
Sailed May 8, 1918, with Advanced School Detachment. At- 
tended Artillery School at Valdahon. Transferred Special 
Duty G2-D (Stars and Stripes), July 20-Seplember 25, 1918. 
September 27-Oclober 10, 1918, G-2, 1st Army. October 18- 
November 12, G-e, 3d Army. November 13, 1918-January 

8, 1919, with G 2-D, or 155th F, A. Fere-en-Tardenois, 
Vesle, Alsace, St. Mihiel, Argonne. Home address, 450 River- 
side Drive, New York City. 

Lieutenant Thomas Marks Calvert. Bom Louisville, 
Ky. Unmarried. Attended Memphis High School and Texas 
A. and M. Enlisted Co. A, I si Tenn. Inf., April 14, 1917. 
Sergeant, May 24, 1917. Commissioned 2d Lt., April 31, 
1918. Attended Officers' Training Camp at Leon Springs, 
Texas. Sailed overseas and served throughout the war with 
the 115th F. A. Served with battery and as Regimental 
Munitions Officer throughout the Meuse-Argonne and Woeyre 
Operations. Transferred to 2d Division, Army of Occupation 
of Germany, and promoted to 1st Lt. Home address, 223 
Lewis St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Lieutenant Harold Elsworth Morrlson. Born Allen- 
ville, Mo. Unmarried. .Attended Fredericktown High School. 
Enlisted June 25, 1916, Isl Tenn. Inf. Served on Mexican 
border with this regiment. Answered call for European War 
with regiment. Commissioned 2d Lt.. I 1 5th F. A.. November 

9, 1917, assigned to Hq. Co., as Reg. Radio Officer. Sailed 
with Advanced School Detachment and atlended Artillery 
School at Valdahon. Promoted Isl Ll., October 29, 1918. 
Served throughout the war with regiment as Radio Officer. 
Cited in Regimental Orders for service at front. Transferred 
to Embarkation Camp, Le Mans, France. Address, 500 Ken- 
dall St., Sikeston, Mo. 

Lieutenant Charles T. McMurray. Bom Nashville, 
Tenn. Unmarried. Attended Fogg High School, Nashville. 
Enlisted May, 1915, N. G., Tenn. Served on Mexican border 
with 1st Tenn. Inf. Answered call for European War with 
this regiment. Commissioned 2d Lt., I 1 5lh F. A., December 
1, 1917. Assigned to Headquarters Company as Regimental 
Telephone Officer. Sailed overseas with Advanced School De- 



tachment, 115th F. A. Attended Artillery School at Valda- 
hon, France. Promoted 1st Lt.. May, 1918. Served through- 
out the war with regiment. Gassed during the Argonne Of- 
fensive. Cited in Regimental Orders for service at front. 
Address, 750 Roycroft Place, Nashville, Tenn. 

Lieutenant Ernest G. Hartley. Born Kingston, Tenn. 
Dora L. Hartley, wife; Louise E., daughter, and William A., 
son. Atlended Gramm.ar School. November 23, 1896, to 
December 31, 1898, Spanish- American War, Copr., Co. E, 
3d Tenn. Vol. Inf. February 23, 1905, to June, 1906, 2d 
Lt., Batteiv A. N. G., Tenn. June 21, 1906, to June 20, 
1909, 1st ill., Battery A, N. G., Tenn. October 8, 1909, to 
June 7, 1910, Q. M. Sergeant, N. G., Tenn. June 8, 1910, 
to March 3, 1912, 2d Lt., Q. M. C, 3d Tenn. Inf. Decem- 
ber 12, 1912, to April 15, 1916, Capt., Q. M. C, N. G., Tenn. 
June 28 to August 5, 1916, Regt. Supply Sergeant, 1st Tenn. 
Inf. Served on Mexican border with Isl Tenn. Inf. Re- 
sponded to call for European War as Regt. Supply Sergeant, 
1st Tenn. Inf. Commissioned 2d Lt., 1 1 5th F. A., Novem- 
ber 26, 1917. Promoted to Isl Lt., F. A. Served through- 
out the war with the Supply Company, 115th F. A. Assigned 
to 3d Division, Army of Occupation of Germany, February, 
1919. Address, 529 W. 6th St., Chaltanooga, Tenn. 

Lieutenant Roland Douglas Hall. Born Brookhaven, 
Miss. Unmarried. Graduate Columbia Military Academy, 
Columbia, Tenn., 1915. Attended Mississippi College, 1916. 
Enlisted 1st Tenn. Inf., July 4, 1916. 1st Sergeant, Co. L, 
1st Tenn. Inf. Served on Mexican border with regiment. An- 
swered call for European War and was 1st Sergeant, Battery 
F, 115th F. A. Commissioned 2d Ll., November 28, 1917; 
promoted Isl Lt., November 8, 1918. Sailed with Advanced 
School Detachment, 115th F. A. Attended Artillery School 
at Valdahon, France. Served throughout the war with regi- 
ment as Executive and Battery Officer. Address, Sheffield, Ala. 

L.ieutenant Claude N. Dye, Born Bevier, Mo. Wife, 
Mrs. Gladie Childers Dye. Attended Kirkville State Normal 
School, degree of B.S. Enlisted February 27, 1918, Corporal, 
June 1, 1918, in 342d F. A. Candidate student at Saumur 
Artillery School, August 2-October 31, 1918. Commissioned 
2d Lt., November I, 1918. Home address, Callao, Mo. 

Lieutenant Robert Denison Frick. Born Baltimore, 
Maryland. Unmarried. Litt.B., Princeton University, 1914. 
Pvt. Corp. Sergeant, I lOlh F. A., 1917. Camp McClellan, 
O. T. S., January-April, 1918. Saumur Artillery School, 
June-September, 1918. Reported 115lh F. A., September 14, 
1918. Served with Battery B, I15lh F. A., until March, 1919, 
when assigned to Oxford University, England, from 30th Divi- 
sion. Home address, 1503 Bolton St., Baltimore, Md. 

Lieutenant William R. Copeland. Born Rockville, Ind. 
Unmarried. Atlended Rockville High School. Salesman. 
Enlisted Company G, 1st Tenn. Inf., August 5, 1915. Cor- 
poral Company C, Isl Tenn. Inf., July 3, 1916. Served 
throughout the Mexican border trouble with the 1st Tenn. Inf., 
being promoted to Sergeant. Answered call for European 
War, April 12, 1917, and was made 1st Sergeant, Company C, 
1st Tenn. Inf., same day, continuing in thai grade until regi- 
ment was changed into artillery and the company was ab- 
sorbed inlo Battery B, 115th F. A. Detailed to 3d Officers' 
Training Camp at Leon Springs, Texas, January 4, 1918. 
Commissioned 2d Lt., F. A., June 2, 1918. Sailed overseas 
and served throughout the war with the 115th F. A., serving 
with Balleries B and E, and as Regimental Intelligence Officer. 
Returned to United States and mustered out with regiment at 
Ft. Oglethorpe. Home address, 2098 Court Ave., Mem- 
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Battery A, 1 1 5th Field Artillery 



In Older that the organization of Battery A may 
be better understood, it is necessary first to give some 
of the history of the two companies which were con- 
solidated to make Battery A. 

In 1 899 Company E was organized in Memphis, 
Tenn., and was itnown as the Frazier Light Guards. 
It was then a member of the Second Tennessee In- 
fantry. In 1 903 Company M was organized in Mem- 
phis, Tenn., and also became a member of the Sec- 
ond Tennessee Infantry. Company M was called the 
Governor's Guard. In 1910 Companies M and E, 
along with Companies G and L, of Memphis, were 
transferred to the First Tennessee Infantry, and 
formed one of the battalions of that regiment. In 
1912 the First Tennessee Infantry was dissolved 
as a regiment and the Memphis companies became the 
First Battalion of the First Provisional Regiment of 
Infantry of Tennessee. 

On June 18, 1916, at the time of the disturbance 
on the Mexican border, this battalion was called out 
under the President's proclamation and entrained on 
June 26, 1916, for the State mobolization point at 
Nashville, Tenn. On June 27, 1916, in forming the 
new First Tennessee Infantry, the letters of the com- 
panies were changed — Company E to Company A, 
and Company M to Company B. On July 3, 1916, 
the regiment was sworn into Federal service. There 
was only one man in the \.\vo companies who failed to 
take the Federal oath. 

After two and a half months of hard trainmg, dur- 
ing an extremely hot summer, the regiment entrained 
for Eagle Pass. Texas, for guard duty on the Mexi- 
can border. While serving on the border the two 
companies took part in a seven days' hike and field 
maneuvers to Spofford, Texas, and return. This hike 
was engaged in by the entire garrison at Eagle Pass, 
comprising five regiments of Infantry, one of Field 
Artillery, one of Cavalry and one of Engineers. In 
January, 1917, the two companies, A and B, were 
sent for thirty days to guard ranches and patrol Rio 
Grande fords; Company A was stationed at Indio 
Ranch and Company B at Windmill Ranch. On 
March 15th, the regiment entrained for Memphis, 
Tenn., and was mustered out of Federal service in 
that city on March 24, 191 7. 



In answer to the President's call, after the declara- 
tion of war with Germany, on April 12, 1917, the 
two companies again entered the Federal service and 
joined the other companies of the regiment at Camp 
Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee. Another 
summer of hard training in Nashville followed. Dur- 
ing the summer there was one month of guard duty in 
the Tennessee mountains. 

The next move was to Camp Sevier, Greenville, 
S. C,. the training camp of the 30th Division, and 
the regiment arrived there on September 9, 1917. 
Four days later the First Tennessee Infantry ceased 
to exist, for on the morning of the Nth of September 
it was converted into a regiment of Field Artillery 
and became the 11 5th Field Artillery. Companies 
A and B were consolidated and became Battery A, 
115th Field Artillery. From September 14, 1917, 
to May 19, 1918, the regiment underwent intensive 
training in Field Artillery at Camp Sevier. On the 
latrter date the regiment left Camp Sevier for Camp 
Mills. Long Island, New York, where the final prepa- 
rations for overseas service were made. It landed in 
France June 1 4 and trained at Camp de Coetquidan. 

On August 20, 1918, the regiment entrained for 
Toul, France. From Toul it marched by night to 
its first picket lines near Sanzey. About a week later 
Battery A moved up to position in front of Berne- 
court. The next few days were spent in improving 
the position and bringing up ammunition m prepara- 
tion for the opening of the St. Mihiel drive, the first 
purely American drive of the war. At one o'clock 
on the morning of September 12, 1918, the Ameri- 
can artillery opened fire and at 2:30 Battery A was 
ordered to open. For eleven hours from the time of 
the first round, Battery A fired continuously. In spite 
of the fact that the men at the battery position had 
been working all night long for three nights before the 
opening of the drive and the cannoneers, without re- 
lief, served the guns, while standing in mud over their 
shoe tops, there was never a falter until the command 
to "Cease Firing" was given. 

The following morning Battery A advanced through 
Flirey, had its first experience crossing "No-Man's 
Land," and took up a new position in a captured 
German battery position behind Bouillionville. Sev- 











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eral days later, after delivering fire from Bouillion- 
ville, the order came to move back. A forced march 
w^as then on to reach Avocourt in time for the open- 
ing of a new drive in the great Argonne Offensive. 
The march, conducted entirely by night with rain 
falhng almost contmuously, the weather unusually 
cold, was by far the most gruelling ever experienced 
by the regiment. The congestion of traffic on the 
roads caused long halts which, under the conditions 
of weather, were more wearying than the actual 
marching. However, the brigade arrived behuid 
Avocourt m time to take up positions and engage in 
the Argonne drive that commenced on September 26, 
1918. After about a week behind Avocourt, Battery 
A advanced to a position west of Montfaucon and 
relieved Battery B of this regiment. Here the battery 
was subjected to heavy shell fire from the enemy, but 
suffered no casualties. 

After several days at Montfaucon the battery was 
ordered to return to the echelon. By that time the 
brigade had suffered such heavy losses in horses that 
it could no longer advance as a whole. It was then 
ordered to move to the Woevre Sector, and, with the 
assistance of the motor trucks of the 105th Ammuni- 
tion Train, moved to a position near Troyon. Bat- 
tery A relieved Battery A of the 103d Field Artillery 
in a position north of St. Remy. 

In this last position the battery again experienced 
very heavy shelling from the enemy. Daily artillery 
duels were engaged in, and Heine was very successful 
in locating Battery A. His shells repeatedly fell in 
and about the position, but his high explosives had very 
little effect. However, his gas shells took a heavy 
toll, and affected twenty-four men seriously enough 
to necessitate their being sent to the hospital. 

No further move was made until the night of the 
1 0th of November. On that night the first platoon 
of the battery moved forward to the plain and took 
up a position near Herbeuville, ready to support the 
infantry of the 33d Division in the drive that was to 
commence on the morning of the I I th. The drive 
started as scheduled, and was being conducted suc- 
cessfully when word was received at 1 I :00 A.M. that 
the armistice had been signed and all firing would 
cease. It was believed by all that the signing of the 
armistice definitely put an end to the war. The 
eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh 



month is one never to be forgotten by the men who 
were on the line at that time. 

The personnel of Battery A was originally entirely 
from Memphis, Tennessee, but owing to losses from 
transfers and other causes, replacements were made 
with men from all parts of the United States. 

ROSTER OF BATTERS' A 
11 5th Field Artillery 

Asterisk (*) deno'es served with First Tennessee Infantry 
on Mexican border. 

FIRST SERGEANT 

*Thurman, John R Plum Point. Miss. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 

*CuRRV, DossEV P 737 Ponlo'oc Ave., Memphis. Tenn. 

MESS SERGEANT 

*DuPree. Chester R 2073 Linden Ave.. Memphis. Tenn. 

SERGEANTS 
*Branso.v, Forrest L.. .507 McLemore Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Clark. Clifford I.. . .1320 N. Taylor A\e.. Memphis. Tenn. 

Ferguson, John F R. F. D. No. I, Harriman, Tenn. 

*Crocan, William 492 Olive St., Memphis, Tenn. 

*Whitelaw, Wm. M....I716 Autumn Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 
*SheA, John D Cleveland, Miss. 

SiMlVlONS, WlNBORN Ill Collins St , Memphis, Tenn. 

SoRSEY. Richard L Buntyn. Tenn. 

Brown. Clavborne F Address Unknown 

Jones, AsbuRY L 334 Edith Ave.. Memphis. Tenn. 

*Mason, Gradv M.. . .Court and Cooper Sts., Memphis. Tenn. 
CORPORALS 

Arnold. Harry B 925 Penn. Ave., Memphis, Tenn 

*DudlEY. Edward J 214 Main St., Memphis, Tenn. 

MiTCHUM. Lester C 1021 Raynor St., Memphis. Tenn. 

Miller, Earl A 23 Victor St., Memphis, Tenn. 

*LinDERMAN, Irby R 716 Chekea Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Deas, Wm. W.. . .R. F. D. No. 1, Box 199. Raleigh, Tenn. 

Carter, Earl W 320 Wa'ker Ave., Memphis. Tenn. 

Williams, James A Bridgeport, Ala. 

*Kennedy, Edward J 868 N. Third St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Hankins, Edwin 200 Danueron Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Ditto. Joe M.. .R. F. D. No. 6, Buntyn Ave., Buntyn, Tenn. 

Royster, Edwin G 293 N. Bellevue St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Strong. Ralph I Brighton, Tenn. 

Cricger, Jacob W Munford, Tenn. 

Delashmit, Charlie P Munford, Tenn. 

Cox, RUFUS E Black Hawk, Miss. 

*PlERCE, Edward M 544 Edith Place, Memphis, Tenn. 

HarRELL, George F Route No. 6, Buntyn, Tenn. 

Jennings. John E Memphis. Tenn. 

Bledsoe. Edward F....1317 McMillan St., Memphis, Tenn. 
*MoREHEAD, Hugh 731 Union Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Murphy. John C Memphis. Tenn. 

Hall, Harry A Halls, Tenn. 

COOKS 

Pentecost, Robert D Sylvia, Tenn. 

Provost, Hugh I Mark Tree, Ark. 



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*Redmond. Robert J Memphis, Tenn 

*LovELACE, Russell B Memphis, Tenn. 

HORSESHOERS 

*AndeRSON, Michael F..I389 McMillan Si., Memphis, Tenn. 

*BUMPUS, Walter A.. .369 Richmond Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

HUTCHINS, R. H.. . .1223 S. Wellington St, Memphis, Tenn. 

Smith, Joseph F Mt. Airy, N. C. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 

*Clancy, John M 10-tO Via St., Memphis, Tenn. 

MECHANICS 

Drake, Dan W Memphis, Tenn. 

McPeak, Robert K Democrat, Ark. 

*TucKER, Charles E Buntyn, Tenn. 

SADDLER 

*DuECKER, Wm., Jr 1 187 TuLwiler Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

BUGLERS 

Keller, Dorris Whiteville, Tenn. 

*Klouse, Forrest B.. . .614 Mississippi Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Austin, Tillman 339 Valera St., Nashville. Tenn. 

*Baker, Arby E Bunlyn, Tenn. 

Barefield, Willie R Memphis, Tenn. 

*Barksdale, Leslie A Memphis, Tenn. 

Barron, William E 241 Mill St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Barton, Robert W Cleveland, Miss. 

Braly, Samuel H Pulaski, Tenn. 

Carroll, John E Address Unknoviin 

Clark, Hugh V 1476 Humber St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Clark, James E., Jr 80 Sunflower St., Greenville, Miss. 

Clay, Shelby A Memphis, Tenn. 

Colvett, William F Lynnville, Tenn. 

*Cooper, Howard P Batesville, Miss. 

Cooper, John A Memphis, Tenn. 

Crowder, Preston T.. . .R. F. D. No. 2, Gaincsboro, Tenn. 

Dickey, Clifford Earl, Ark. 

Flanigan, Clyde C 503 Linden Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

FoppiANO, Louis J. ...11 17 S. Orleans St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Garrigus, Harry A Memphis, Tenn. 

GiPSON, Robert P Address Unknov\'n 

Graham, John W R. F. D. No. 2, New Market, Tenn. 

Hentz, Charles A Taft, Tenn. 

Hentz, Quicg G Courlland, Miss. 

Hicks, Charles L Address Unknown 

Hicks, Frank A Clarksdale, Miss. 

*IviE, James M Memphis, Tenn. 

Jackson, Grover C Address Unknown 

Jelks, Eugene O Augusta, Ark. 

McKee, Fletcher D Ripley, Tenn. 

McKenzie, George W Oakdale, Tenn. 

Mitchell, Hoy N 1016 Court Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Moore, James W 792 S. Dudley St., Memphis, Tenn. 

MosiER, Charles A Address Unknown 

MuLLIKlN, BiRNIE 176 N. Main St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Neumann, Harold G Nogales, Ariz. 

Owen, David C 615 Lucy St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Parham, Edward R Hickory Ridge, Ark. 

*Rochell, Louis J 949 Thomas St., Memphis, Tenn. 



Stark, John R Memphis, Tenn. 

Staten, Hervey E.. . .656 McLemore Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 
*Stuart, James W 1265 Thomas Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Tarpley, William S Henderson, Tenn. 

Townsend, Robert N.. . . 1937 Young Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Tucker, Robert T Y. M. C. A., Nashville, Tenn. 

Underwood, Collie L 241 Mill Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

*Waite, William C 151 S. Main St., Memphis, Tenn. 

*White, James A 969 Saxon Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

White, Noe S 871 Arkanras Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

PRIVATES 

Abbott, Paul T Route No. 1. Kitirell, N. C. 

Andis, Burt B General Delivery, Wetmore, Colo. 

Avery, Paul C M.iury City, Tenn. 

Barron, John Sumterville, Fla. 

Beasley, Thomas E R. F. D. No. 6, Ripley, Tenn. 

Bell, Owen Mt. Olive, N. C. 

BiLLINCSLEY, Thomas J Memphis, Tenn. 

Blackstone, Gay Shelbyville, 111. 

*Bledsoe, Walter H.. . . 1317 McMillan St., Memphis, Tenn. 

BoTTAZZI, Tony 200 Crawford St., Leommsler, Mass. 

Bouschet, Charles 302 N. First St., Tucson, Ariz. 

Bray, Charles D Sixlh St., Bristol, Tenn. 

Brown, Charlie M Findlay, HI. 

Buckner, Floyd K 721 S. Third St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Burdick, Earl R 1425 McMillan St, Memphis, Tenn. 

Bushart, Newt B Mercer, Tenn. 

Butts, John E Courtland, Miss. 

Caldwell, Stephen G MiUinglon, Tenn. 

Chandler, Fred R. F. D. No. 1, Corbandale, Tenn. 

*CoCKE, Allie J Forrest Hill, Tenn. 

CoLN, Tom W 113 Lacy St., Chester, S. C. 

CoLLOCCI, Ancelo 801 Stone Ave., Scranlon, Pa. 

CoOK, John C McKenzie, Tenn. 

Craig, John E Ripley, Tenn. 

Crawley, Samuel Address Unknown 

*CrIM, John W 132 Monroe Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Crowe, John M R. F. D. No. 1, Loganspori, Ind. 

Davis, Willie J Spring Hope, N. C. 

Dunham. Helmer O Pelican, Minn. 

Ellis, Frank J 676 Clinton St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Ellis, Fred Address Unknown 

Fitzgerald, James E Newcomb, Tenn. 

Flynn, John A R. F. D. No. 2, Gainesboro, Tenn. 

Foster, Thomas L R. F. D. No. 5, Memphis, Tenn, 

Francis, Adolph Lake Landing, N. C. 

FUSSELL, Frank E 310 Chestnut St., Audubon, N. J. 

Gaffney, William E Camargo, 111. 

Goad, Rice P R. F. D. No. 5, Dycrsburg, Tenn. 

*Goodfellow, Fritz F 531 Concord St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Grant, John N 260 N. Market St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Greenwalt, Loy S Glenarm, III. 

Hilliard, .Alvis N Columbia, Tenn. 

Hoover, Ben N Christiana, Tenn. 

Howell, Homer A R. F. D. No. 4, Erin, Tenn. 

HoYLE, William C 1364 N. 6th Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Humphreys, Louis. ..117 W. Rembert St., Memphis, Tenn. 
Jones, Ben 702 S. Ninth St., Lexington, Ky. 



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*Kelley, Joseph E 641 Poplar Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Kelly, John R 938 Oak St., Memphis, Tenn. 

KooNTZ, Thomas 1 1431 Gather St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Krone, Frank 518 N. 35th St., E. St. Louis, 111. 

Landrum, Charley Lancing, Tenn. 

Laury, Francisco 349 Central St., Leominster, Mass. 

Llewellyn, Sterling W R. F. D. 5. Catawissa, Pa. 

McCluskey, Floyd C Lauderdale Co., Tenn. 

McGhee, William Carry ville, Tenn. 

McIntyre, Shird R. F. D. No. 8, Paris, Ky. 

McKee, Nick F R. F. D. No. 1, Dyersburg, Tenn. 

Martin, James A Fayetleville, Tenn. 

MiLLSAP, Charles F R. F. D. No. I, Mullberry, Tenn. 

Mon.aghan, M. a., Jr.. .1709 Forrest Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Murray, Henry R. F. D. No. L, Fall Branch, Tenn. 

Myers, John T R. F. D. No. 2, Cunningham, Tenn. 

Myers, John E 597 Railroad St., Danville, Pa. 

Nabors, Ray D 1399 Kentucky St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Nance, Joseph S Address Unknown 

Nelson, Edward G Farmingdale, 111. 

Oakley, Alonzo L 115 Main St., Clarksville, Tenn. 

PaGELLA, Pete 123 S. Wellington St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Owens, William B 1085 Ryder Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Park, William M Diana, Tenn. 

Parks, Charles W Fayetteville, Tenn. 

'Parish, Russell A.. . .999 Tanglewood St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Porter, Dallas L R. F. D. No. 2, Kokomo, Ind. 

PosTON, Carl F Curve, Tenn. 

Powers, Wylie J P^,„y,^^ -p^„„ 

Pranewiez, Adolph Philadelphia, Pa. 

Rainey, Everett L Gaites. Tenn. 

Randall, William A 477 Atlantic St., Launum, Mich 

Reeves, Jesse D Fragadocio, Mo. 

Rhea, Robert T Address Unknown 

RUCKER, Robert A Route No. 4, W. Nashville, Tenn. 

*Schaper, Charles H. F., Jr Memphis, Tenn. 

SCHERDIN, William 2019 Cherry St., Milwaukee, Wis 

^^"N' Nick South Range, Mich. 

Shaw, Elbert P., Jr Address Unknown 

Skelton, Van Norris Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Spencer, Elmo T Address Unknown 



Sprenkle, John Address Unknown 

Stewart, Lawrence T.. . 1041 Barton Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Stout, Jacob D Shounes, Tenn. 

Talley, Frank R Memphis, Tenu. 

Taraborrelu, V1NCENZO..734 S. 8th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

*Taylor, Hazel A Memphis, Tenn. 

Thompson, Floyd Sumner, Miss. 

Tompkins, James Whitepine, Tenn. 

ToRiAN, William C 1206 James Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Tulchin, Morris Address Unknown 

Turner, Ashton R Henning, Tenn. 

Turner, Leonard C Dyersburg, Tenn. 

Uncerecht, Edward E Henning, Tenn. 

Vacco, Anglo R. F. D. No. 6, Brownsville, Tenn. 

Weakley, Willie Montgomery Co., Tenn. 

White, William E Bunlyn, Tenn. 

WiGGs, Keith A Walnut, Miss. 

Angello, Joseph Address Unknown 

Brown, Edward A Address Unknown 

Callahan, Timothy J Millbury (Worchester), Mass. 

Cahill, Henry 52 Harrison St., Worcester, Mass. 

Cardinal, J. J., 50 Barshall St., N. Adams (Berkshire), Mass. 
Carpenter, Fredk A S. St. Auburn (Worcester), Mass. 

Collins, Dennis J Roxbury (Suffoch) Mass. 

Crouse, Ralph A Shady Gap (Hennington), Pa. 

Fuller, James A Address Unknown 

Hewitson. Charles H Riverton, 111. 

KiLMA, William 1845 S. Throop St., Chicago, III. 

Leach, Clifford 3310 N. Lee St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

LoucHEE, George R Wrentham, Mass. 

Rossoniello, Anthony 110 Bush St., Dunmore, Pa. 

Bigney, Stephen 82 West St., Worcester, Mass. 

Hayes, James T Address Unknown 

Young, Shirley O R. F. D. No. 2, Savannah, Tenn. 

Horn, Etheldred P., Jr Address Unknown 

Brown, James J Address Unknown 

McCutcheon, James R Address Unknown 

Saunders, John W 175 W. Carolina, Memphis, Tenn. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
*Clavert, Claude H 223 Lewis St., Memphis. Tenn. 




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The history of the present military organization 
known as Battery B, 1 15th F. A., is in reality a 
collection of events leading up to our present status, 
as most of its history deals with loyal patriots from 
Memphis, so naturally we go back to its earliest days, 
which leads to the times preceeding the organization 
of State Militia. Among the many famous military 
bodies in the early days was an organization known 
as the Neely Zouaves. They originally hailed from 
Memphis, Tennessee, and gained world fame, due 
to their masterful drilling qualities. Their leader was 
an old Memphian, known as Captain Kit Deffrey, a 
native of Shelby County. Captain Deffrey, being a 
drill master of wonderful ability, took the Zouaves 
in hand and soon had an organization known all over 
the United States. Not contented with this, he chal- 
lenged all comers on the drill field, and carried off the 
first honors at San Antonio, Texas, in the champion- 
ship contest of the United States. Among the con- 
tenders at this contest were the Chickasaw Guards, 
of Memphis, known at that time as the Forrest Rifles, 
who were forced to bow to the Zouaves. 

Wherever military bodies met the Neely Zouaves 
were always contenders for the laurels. Two years 
after their efficiency won the title of international 
champions, after outdnlhng military bodies from all 
countries at Washington, D. C. Soon after this suc- 
cess war was declared against Spain, and Captain 
Deffrey immediately offered the services of his organi- 
zation to the government and they were accepted. 

Here opportunity did not offer itself in any gal- 
lant fashion, but as a result of their efficient service 
Captain Deffrey was promoted to Major. Upon be- 
ing mustered out, at the end of the Spanish-American 
War, the Zouaves were organized, and again led by 
Captain Deffrey, after a period of inactivity, the Neely 
Zouaves were again called upon to quell a riot. In 
its suppression many soldiers were killed, but fortu- 
nately none of the Zouaves were among them. 

In the infancy of the State Militia the Zouaves be- 
came known as Company A, 1 st Separate Battalion. 
When in 1916 trouble was brewing between the 
United States and Mexico, Company A was called 
out and immediately entrained for the mobilization 
camp at Nashville for preliminary training. It was 



here that we suffered a very great loss in our beloved 
leader. Captain Deffrey, who was called into the great 
beyond. 

Our outfit, together with several others from the 
same State, were merged together at Nashville, form- 
ing what was known as the 1st Tennessee Infantry. 
On September 16, 1916, we entrained at Nashville 
and proceeded under orders to Eagle Pass, Texas. 
It was in Texas that we started to frame for real war- 
fare. Long hikes, night maneuvers, guard duty, and 
finally the protection of Texas property, were some of 
our tasks. As events looked more serious we patrolled 
the border and guarded the Rio Grande River, divid- 
ing Eagle Pass, Texas, and Pedras Negras, Mexico. 
In fact, we were looked upon for the protection of 
some sixty miles of Texas territory. 

After a time things began to get settled and the 
guards began returning to their home State. Soon we 
were ordered to return, and arrived on March 19, 

1917. After having been home but a few days im- 
pending war with Germany caused us again to be 
called into service, and we were mustered in at Camp 
Andrew Jackson, at Nashville. From here we went 
to a mobilization camp at Greenville, S. C. where 
we were merged with Company D on September 1 3, 

1918, and formed into Battery B, I 15th F. A. We 
were fortunate in having as officers at that time, 
namely. Captain Lanier, First Lieutenants Neely and 
Kaiser, and Second Lieutenant Lunda. 

After a few months of training with wooden ma- 
terial we finally journeyed to Cleveland Mills, S. C, 
and fired our first real guns. The whole brigade 
was there intact, and was composed of two regiments 
of light artillery and our regiment of heavy guns. 
After a six weeks' campaign the commanding general 
lavished his praises on the work of the 1 1 5th F. A., in 
which our battery had played an important role. At 
the conclusion of this maneuver we returned to Green- 
ville on May 19th, and on May 28, 1918, entrained 
for the port of embarkation at Camp Mills, Long Is- 
land, N. Y. After nine months of tedious and hard 
training we were to be sent overseas to take part in 
democracy's great struggle. 

We embarked at Hoboken on June 4, 1918. 



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The battery disembarked at Liverpool, England, 
June IK 1918, and along with the other batteries of 
the 1 15th F. A. was hurried across England to a rest 
camp at Romsey, England. Spent two days here. 
On June 1 3th marched to Southampton, where the 
outfit embarked for France, arriving at Le Havre, 
June 1 4th. From here the regiment entrained for 
Guer, France, thence out to Camp Coetquidan. The 
next ten weeks were spent at artillery school and tar- 
get practice. 

On August 20th Captain Shirley took command. 
B Battery entrained for the front August 26th, and 
detrained at Toul August 28th. After leaving this 
town all movements were made at night. The first 
night hike brought the battery up behind the firing 
line near Menil-La-Tour; here the first echelon was 
established, the firing battery going into position near 
Bernecourt and waiting for the St. Mihiel drive to 
begin. 

The St. Mihiel drive started September 12th. Bat- 
tery B opened fire at 2:20 A.M., and fired continuously 
for more than six hours, the combat train coming up 
in the afternoon, and, after a night's rest, the entire 
battery moved forward the following day. 

The guns were again put into position near Bouil- 
lionville. By a series of night marches the equipment 
moved to a part of the front north of Verdun, Battery 
B again taking up a position a few hundred meters 
behind our infantry, and preparing to take part in the 
Argonne drive. The attack was begun September 
26, 1918. The battery remained in this drive nine 
days and fired from two positions. The last position 
occupied was shelled heavily with gas, from which 
the battery lost sixteen men, who were sent to the 
hospital. 

After finishing our job in the Argonne we were 
obliged to abandon some of our equipment, such as 
caissons and some harness, before moving, and due to 
over-exhaustion of many of our horses, which was 
caused by the forced march from St. Mihiel, we were 
compelled to move our guns by motor and bring up 
the combat train later with the remaining horses. The 
march from the Argonne to the plain of the Woevre 
was of more interest than the one previously men- 
tioned, in view of the fact that it was done mostly 
late in the day and not at night. Everything seemed 



peaceful behind the lines, as the small towns and vil- 
lages were partially inhabited by French civilians. 

After a two-day hike we entered Troyon and then 
continued the march by night, taking up our first bat- 
tery position at the foot of the hill which overlooks 
the town of St. Remy. Two of our guns were later 
moved to the open plains, a part of which the enemy 
then occupied. After remaining in these positions for 
a week we took up our next battery position on the 
ridge which overlooked the plain. 

On the night of November 1 0th two of the guns 
were again pulled out on to the Woevre plains. It 
was on the folowing morning that the armistice was 
signed. 




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ROSTER OF BATTERY B 
1 1 5th Field Artillery 

Asterisk (*) denotes served with First Tennessee Infantry 
on Mexican border. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
*Davis, John W 2108 Oliver Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
*Hester, Charles R Mathislon, Miss. 

MESS SERGEANT 
*McKay, Robert T Memphis, Tenn. 

STABLE SERGEANT 

*McC0Y, Hall Halls, Tenn. 



SERGEANTS 
*Liebenrood, Arthur. .1494 Carollton Ave.. Memphis, 
*Weinrich, Edward C.. .729 Galloway Ave., Memphis, 

*Fennell, Lonnie 1024 Breedlove, Memphis, 

*DiNWiDD[E, Fred A Paris, 

*Naylor, William N Memphis, 

*RiEBETH, George R 391 Trigg Ave., Memphis, 

*Steiger, John H Memphis, 

GiLFILLAN, Robert L.... Union & Summi . Memphis, 

*Drake, Len H Memphis, 

*Maddox, Edmond W Memphis, 



CORPORALS 

*GuiNOzzo, John J., Jr N. Second St., Memph 

*Palmer. William R Pleasant H 

*FergusON, Sular E Aulon Sla., Memph 

*Stephen, John H Memph 

*TuTWiLER, Bruce C Memphi 

*HlCKS, Samuel I Memph: 

*Wilson, Eugene G. ...363 Snowden Ave., Memphi 

*LowRY, Thomas P 483 Ediih PI., Memphi 

FoRBis, Joseph M 963 E. Moreland PI., Memph 

*Aehle, Louis V....558 Washington Ave., Memph 

Cheairs, William T Eudo 

*Moss, Albert W.. . . I 109 E. Moreland PI., Memph 

Canady, Chas. L.. . .309 Montgomery Ave.. Memph: 

Ferguson, George N.. .1920 Cowden Ave., Memphi 

*MoRiARiTY, Clifford F.. . 1416 Vinton Ave., Memph 

*Battle, Thomas E Memph 

*Schumacher. L. O.. .558 Washington Ave., Memph 

Day, Paul L 1975 Young Ave., Memph 

Scruggs, James M., Jr.. . .Banks Gro. Co., Memph 

McIntyre, Robert E 175 Summit St., Memph 

*Buddemeyer, Lee.... 11 82 Jefferson Ave., Memph; 
Long, Walter W 1354 Court A- e., Memph 



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COOKS 

Moss, William L R. F. D. No. 1, Memphis, Tenn. 

Everett, Charles P Whitehaven, Tenn. 

*Shetterly. Leroy Hazen, Ark. 

Peters, Henry N 253 East St., Memphis, Tenn. 

HORSESHOERS 

Butler, Forrest J. H Pleasant View, Tenn. 

Clayton, Roy C R. F. D., Kelso, Tenn. 



Johnson, Peter Address Unknown 

Weaver, Walter E.. .R. F. D. No. 1, Grassy Creek, N. C. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 

AcREE, Herbert N Arlington, Tenn. 

MECHANICS 

Cooley, Shirley B 2101 Elzey St., Memphis, Tenn. 

*Walker, Carl E Halls, Tenn. 

Anderson, Earl R Arlington, Tenn. 

SADDLERS 
LoWRY, Herbert C 48S Edith PI., Memphis, Tenn. 

BUGLERS 

Buie, William G Memphis, Tenn. 

Thorpe, Pete F 1070 S. Cooper, Memphis, Tenn. 

PRIVATES. FIRST CLASS 

Adair, Eugene W Germantown, Tenn. 

*Bailey, Van F 1054 Oliver Ave., Memphis. Tenn. 

Brister, William B (Ark. Home) Memphis, Tenn. 

Brooks, John B 676 Clinton PI., Memphis, Tenn. 

Burks, Rudolph O Camden. Miss. 

BuRGE, William R 2209 Harbert PI., Memphis, Tenn. 

Burns. Lawrence 661 N. 5th St.. Memphis, Tenn. 

Caldwell, Russell J Binghamton, Tenn. 

Collins, James A R. F. D. No. 1, Harriman, Tenn. 

David. John W Anderson, S. C. 

*DoWNEN, Jerry N (St. Ry.) Memphis, Tenn. 

*DuNN, Alder 36 Franklin St., Dayton, Ohio 

Edwards, Luke Galloway, Tenn. 

Frey, Archie L R. F. D. No. 1, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Garrett, Orvill Whitehall, Ark. 

Hallam, Lloyd L Memphis, Tenn. 

*Harding, Wilson Martin. Tenn. 

Harris. Benn 1084 S. Cooper. Memphis, Tenn. 

Harrison. James D Charleston. Miss. 

HastEY, Tennie L 158 N. Paulne St., Memphis, Tenn. 

*Henry, Thomas E., Jr Corinlh, Miss. 

Hines, Jesse B Normal, Tenn. (Memphis) 

*IVY-. Klause Myrtle, Miss. 

*JenkiNS, George W.. . . I 160 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Jones, Walter B Memphis. Tenn. 

*KearNEY, Denniss E 1210 Greenwood, Memphis, Tenn. 

*McClintic, Eugene S.. ..778 Manassas St., Memphis, Tenn. 

May, Jesse F Nonconnah (Memphis, Tenn.) 

Meissner, Louis G Orient, S. D. 

*Moll, Henry F 1327 Mad son Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

MuLLIKlN, Arthur Main and Poplar, Memphis, Tenn. 

Nagle, Charlie T 543 N. Third St., Memphis. Tenn. 

ParROTT. Vernon H.. . .799 Jefferson Ave.. Memphis. Tenn. 

Parsons. Dave E Harriman, 

Peterson, Herbert W Binghamton. 

Phelps. Robert L.. . .261 Summer Ave.. Binghamton, Tenn. 

Price. Albert L 421 Simpson PI.. Memphis. Tenn. 

*Robin, Phillip D Cowd:n Ave., Memphis. 

Sanders, Ralph B Germantown, 

Scott, Slusser Memphis, 

*Smith, Edward Memphis, 

*SoRSBY. Dayton P Buntyn, 



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Spain, Herbert F Ai linglon 

Stell, Oscar F 3-10 Gaslon Ave., Memph: 

*Stovall. Phil Memph: 

Vaughn, George G 34 N. Dunlap St., MempK 

*Wainright, Leo C 57 Cox Ave., Memph 

Walker, William A Overton Park, Memph 

Waller, James L....i023 Philadelphia St., Memph 

Wankel, Herman R 38 Gaither Ave., Memph 

Weinrich, B. L. ..:..729 Galloway Ave., Memph 
Weinrich, Russell. . .727 Gallovi'ay Ave., Memph 
Weinrich, Phil E....729 Galloway Ave., Memph 
Williams, Carl K E; 



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PRIVATES 

Adams, Charles S Ridgelop, Tenn. 

Adams, Hayden L Box 54, Ridgelop. Tenn. 

Adams, Thomas M Ridgetop, Tenn. 

Adkins, Albert R Clarksville, Tenn. 

Allen, Dixie F SevierviUe, Tenn. 

Allen, Robert B Kodak, Tenn. 

*Anderson, Wm. L 2085 Vinton Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Ashley, Leroy Address Unknown 

AuTREY, Richard W R. F. D. 7, SevierviUe. Tenn. 

Ayres, Charles L Philadelphia, Pa. 

Bailey, Jesse R R. F. D. No. 1, Kodak, Tenn. 

BaLLEW, Sam K Harriman, Tenn. 

Biggs, John C 2035 Oliver Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Billings, Jim Covington, Tenn. 

Cales, Charles F Sandstone, W. Va. 

Campbell, Orvlee Washburn, Tenn. 

Carney, Louie J Ashland City, Tenn. 

Carter, George W R. F. D. No. 6, Dandridge, Tenn. 

Christianson, Otto .Address Unknown 

Collins, Ernest E R. F. D. No. 2, Rutledge, Tenn. 

Ceimeilli, Cosimo 115 N. Ri er St., Sayre, Pa 

CuppLES, Arlis R Slanlonville, Tenn. 

Dale, Arnie A Jamestown, Ind. 

Darrah, Luther L 420 S. 10th St., NoMesville, Ind. 

Dickson, James F Southside, Tenn. 

Dirmeyer, Wm. C, Jr.. . . 1921 Young A\e., Memphis, Tenn. 

Dugan, Daniel E Memphis, Tenn. 

Ellison, Robert C R. F. D. No. 3, Se.lerville, Tenn. 

Fadely, George Mt. Jackson, Va. 

FiccE, Nicola 8377 4th St., N.E., Washington, D. C. 

Flynt, Willie E R. F. D. No. 4, Fayetteville, Tenn. 

FussELL, Cyrus T Rosehill, N. C. 

Fyfe, Robert C....S. McLroy Ave., W. Terre Haute, Ind. 

Gore, Vincent Raines, Tenn. 

Green, James A R. F. D. No. 2, Morrisiown, Tenn. 

Gregory, Garnett Sanders, Ky. 

Gross, Claude P 1312 Niece St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Hacg. John S R. F. D. No. I, Talbott, Tenn. 

Hamak, Thomas B Gen. Del., Wecota, S. D. 

Hamlet, Claude O 901 Union Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Harrelson, Walter E Vineland, N. C. 

Harris, Oscar J R. F. D. No. I, Adams, Tenn. 

*Harrison, Theo J Buntyn, Tenn. 

Henninger, Fred 1007 S. Courlland Si., Kokomo, Ind. 



Heos, Theo J Blackville, S. C. 

Hicks, Robert E Marianna, Ark. 

Hodge, Talmage R. F. D. No. 1, Kerrville, Tenn. 

Holt, Carl H Gen. Del., Nashville, Tenn. 

Hunter, Lloyd L Sherron Top, 111. 

Jackson, Paul Address Unknown 

Johnson, Seaborn W Pulaski, Fla. 

Jones, Charles I Estill, S. C. 

Joyce, Will Adams, Tenn. 

Jourdan, Carl J Middlelon, Tenn. 

Juntenen, Leonard Hancock, Mich. 

Lambert, Derward A R. F. D. No. 2, Bolivar, Tenn. 

Lane, John P SevierviUe, Tenn. 

Larrison, Hugh 400 Bell St., Alton, 111. 

Lay, Noah Elk Valley, Tenn. 

McGiLL, LOTE 118 N. 7th St., Memphis, Tenn. 

McIntosh, Samuel N Flagpond, Tenn. 

Marioreno, Guiseppe 120 Morris St., Trenton, N. J. 

Marnucci, Nicola Crystal Falls, Mich. 

Mofford, Lloyd A Balls Landing, Ky. 

Mei, Francesco Hancock, Mich. 

Miller, Phillip C Gen. Del., Memphis, Tenn. 

*MlTCHELL, Franklin O. . 1930 Nelson Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

MoNTELINE, Cosimo 1357 Unity St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Moon, Albert Carmel, Ind. 

MuLCAHY, Alfred S Gen. Del., Memphis, Tenn. 

Murray, George H Myrtle, Miss. 

Owens, Jesse L R. F. D. No. 2, Nashville, Tenn. 

Palmore, Thomas B .Address Unknown 

Pharris, Benton M Madison, Tenn. 

Plant, William R. F. D. No. 3, Delphi, Ind. 

Procopio, Frank 531 W. Front St., Chester, Pa. 

Prospero, James Crystal Falls, Mich. 

QuiLLEN, Jesse W. ...1990 Southern Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Reynolds, David R Carrollion, Ills. 

RoDGERS, Albert E Shreveporl, La. 

Roland, Joseph T Montezuma, Tenn. 

Romanelli, .Angelo 601 Maron St., Burwick, Pa. 

.Satterfield, Willi.^m L Stantonville, Tenn. 

Sattley, George W Illiopolis, III. 

Sharp, Lawrence Vera, III. 

Smith, Ralph 843 Raynor, Memphis, Tenn. 

Sparks, Floyd (Indiana) Address Unknown 

Spencer, Jesse L R. F. D. No. 3, Halls, Tenn. 

Sperry, Herman Ramsey, III. 

Splendore, Mike Long Island, N. Y. 

*Stanfield, Edwin W.. . .2073 Nelson Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Still, Walter E Cheslnut St., Roanoak, Ala. 

SuccA, James 27 3rd St., S., Rabge, Mich. 

Vanderford, Fredk. B..409 25th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Vannini. Louis C 1673 Beard St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Walker, Lance 1121 S. 9th St, Springfield, III. 

Webb, Charlie Marked Tree, Ark. 

Wilburn, Pall W 1326 Sardis St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Wilson, George B Atoka, Tenn. 

WOLLARD, Wm. D R. F. D. No. 4, New Market, Tenn. 

Workman, Rome Akron, Ohio 



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Battery C, 1 1 5th Field Artillery 



The battery is a"Made in Nashville" product, and 
its personnel at the outset of the war was from two 
former mfantry companies, E and F, of the old First 
Tennessee Infantry. Perhaps the early traditions of 
these companies date back to the Mexican War. It 
is said that one of these Nashville companies carried 
the American colors into Mexico City durmg that war. 

Five members of these companies remaining in this 
regiment saw service in the Philippines during the 
Spanish-American War. They are: Major John 
H. Milam, who was a bugler at that time; Major 
Robert Milam, who was Captain; Sergeants Rob- 
ert Warren and Clay Stacker and Private, I st Class, 
Victor Listen. That these men retained their youth 
and dash in our recent drives on the Hun is too well 
known to need comment. 

When the First Tennessee was called out in April, 
1916, E Company was commanded by Captain Lewis 
W. "Red" Hasslock, and F Company by Capt. Jack 
Samuels. Captain Noland succeeded Hasslock in 
command when the latter received his commission as 
Major. After three months at camp, in Cumberland 
Park, Nashville, Tenn., the regiment was ordered to 
the Mexican border, where it did patrol duty until 
it was called back and mustered out of the service 
in Memphis, Tenn., on March 24, 1917. On April 
21, 1917, the First Tennessee was mobilized at Camp 
Jackson, Belle Meade Park, Nashville, for service in 
the European War. 

E Company furnished bridge and dye plant guards 
at Kingsport, Tenn., while F Company performed 
similar duties at Newport, Tenn. After a summer 
of intensive training the regiment was ordered to Camp 
Sevier, Greenville, S. C, September 8, 1917, and 
there became part of the 30th Division. After several 
hot weeks of stump digging, tree chopping, and general 
hazardous fatigue duty, in which the regiment cleared 
off many acres of the large permanent Camp Sevier, 
a little bugler blew taps on the night of September 
13, 1918, for the last time over E and F companies, 
and the First Tennessee, and the boys awoke cussing 
the next morning to find the companies had been 
merged into Battery C, I 15th Field Artillery of the 
55th F. A. Brigade. Not many will cuss today over 
that surprising change. This marked the passing of 
Captain Samuels, who transferred to another branch 



of the service, and Capt. Bernard W. DePierre was 
the first Battery Commander. 

C Battery might be called an officers' clearing 
house, for since its organization on September 14, 
1917, the following officers have come and gone via 
the transfer route: Captain DePierre, Major Hugh 
B. Hooper, at one time a 1st Lieutenant in the bat- 
tery; Lieutenants Ernest G. Hartley, Daniel O. N. 
Hoffman, Claude S. Underwood, Francis W. Harris, 
Grantland Rice, Herbert B. Hudnut, Matthew G. 
Reynolds, Harrison L. Taylor, Roland D. Hall, 
Thomas M. Calvert, Erskine Maiden, Murray C. 
Bernays, Horace Pope, Fred C. Lunda, and James 
A. Pigue. 

Long, hard months of training and a very severe 
winter at Camp Sevier served to harden and train the 
men for the hardships and exposures they have just 
gone through. C Battery at Greenville was given 
credit for having the cleanest and best equipped kitchen 
in the division, through the efforts of the former Mess 
Sergeant, William B. Scruggs. A kitchen of white 
tiling and enamel was the pride of many an army in- 
spector's eye. 

At last on Sunday. May 19, 1918, amid great 
cheers, the regiment boarded the trains for the port 
of embarkation, having at that time been "under can- 
vas" for over two years. A few short weeks at 
Camp Mills, Mineola, L. I., in which the Tennessee 
boys got sore necks gazing at the New York sky- 
scrapers, and where they did some surf bathing, on 
one occasion one of our Sergeants chasing an M. P. 
in the surf. We got on board that "canoe" H. M. S. 
Mauretania, and at 7:10 P.M., June 4, 1918, we 
slipped down past Miss Liberty and gazed at our fast 
fading U. S. A. 

No one can forget that voyage. We will never 
forget the Mauretania's crew. They will never for- 
get the Tennessee boys; nor the way they handled the 
dice. Most of the crowd were wearing the sailors' 
caps after the first twenty-four hours. These Ten- 
nessee lads went fast from two bits to shillings and to 
francs. It made no difference what the stakes, the 
Tennessee dice always cleaned up. More than one 
of the crew expressed surprise at the total indifference 
to submarine dangers. "We are now going through 
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through then; don't talk over my shot; I am trying to 
make that nine," was the "Made in Nashville" an- 
swer. 

Liverpool, little trains, Scotch whisky and Romsey, 
our first English rest camp. You couldn't even rest 
your elbow there. A hike to Southampton, a rough 
ride over the channel, Le Havre, coaches that were 
very quaint, a long ride and finally Camp Coetquidan, 
our big training camp. Fini campaign hats and canvas 
leggins, entre "overseas" caps, steel helmets and gas 
masks. 

At Camp Coetquidan C Battery received its pres- 
ent commander, Capt. Wallace W. Riddick, suc- 
ceeding Capt. DePierre, June 29, 1918, Capt. De 
Pierre transferring to another branch of the service. 
After a hurried trip across France, we arrived at Toul 
August 28, 1918. The Battery hiked all night and 
took up a position a few days later with the other 
batteries of the regiment in support of the 89th Divi- 
sion. The battery was quickly christened to shell 
shock by a terrific explosion of a large ammunition 
dump near the echelon on their second day in the 
line. The guns were placed in a preliminary position 
on September 5th, and the crews got their first taste 
of shell fire and had their first gas alarm. Sights of 
burning balloons, leaping observers, aerial barrages 
quickly brought the realization on all that it was a 
very serious game they were playing. Taking position 
on the right of the road half way between Bernecourt 
and Fhrey, the battery got in readiness for the great 
offensive that started September 1 2th. The barrage 
was to blast the way for the first big American drive 
of the war, and after many hours of ceaseless and 
violent firing the sun dawned on that victorious day 
when St. Mihiel took its place in American history. 
Our guns pounded away along with the others of our 
regiment. About two o'clock in the afternoon the 
guns were limbered and ordered forward, in support 
of the drive. Getting on the road at 4:00 P.M. the 
huge guns moved forward in the snail-like traffic. All 
that day and all night the men were in their saddles, 
moving up by inches it seemed, but finally through the 
shell-torn roads and blasted "No-Man's Land" of 
years' standing the battery reached a valley behind 
Thiaucourt, and along with D shared the honors of 
being the first howitzers in position. A night, a day, 
some accurate firing, and then orders to move back. 
Getting on the road at dusk the battery, along with 'he 
regiment, began that famous nine-night hike to the 



Argonne Forest. "Who said Spofford?" Coming 
through Essey and considerable shell fire, more than 
one wife in Nashville barely escaped becoming a 
widow. One G. I. can was shot off the water cart, 
and luck that has followed us until this time was cer- 
tainly with us then. Who can forget that long hike 
to the Argonne? Some of the old G. A. R. will have 
to do some arguing to convince us that it was not as 
hard as Sherman's march to the sea. Dark nights, 
rains, ditches, bully beef, mud, dying horses, tired 
men, wet beds, cooties ; but we got there, and on 
September 23d old C Battery was again in position 
behind Avocourt, ready to take part in one of the 
greatest barrages of the war — for the Argonne-Meuse 
drive. This has since proved to be the biggest battle 
in American history. Old C Battery fired until they 
were ordered to cease. We kept the Kaiser busy 
counting his men, and helped reduce the Boche strong- 
hold, Montfaucon. Then came the heart-breaking 
part of the war for the battery. Our horse casualties 
had risen so high that only half the regiment could 
advance, and C Battery sent its poor tired "goats" 
to assist D Battery in crossing that crater blaze of 
"No-Man's Land." Sixty horses and forty men went 
forward and assisted in ammunition handling and other 
labor details, being exposed to all sorts of dangers 
along with their regimental comrades. On October 
7 th the regiment was ordered to the Troyon Sector, 
overlooking the Woevre Valley. Pulled by trucks 
the trip was made in rapid time, and on October I 0th 
the guns of C Battery ^vere once more pounding the 
Huns on their third different front in thirty days. 

Getting up at all hours of the night, the battery was 
called upon to deliver fire upon many points. Always 
they responded cheerfully, quickly and with deadly 
accuracy. On one occasion a certain gun of the for- 
ward position fired fifteen shots in three and one-half 
minutes, using charge GO, FA and lAL fuse, quite 
a record for the crew. This gun has also fired more 
shots than any other gun in the regiment. The gun 
crews were changed throughout the battery several 
times, the new men always catching on rapidly until 
the battery was well fixed for cannoneers. 

Although the cannoneers were up day and night, 
and were greatly fatigued by the heavy amount of 
firing in the last twenty hours of the war, when the 
final command came down at 8:43 on November 
1 I th to cease firing, many of them were sorry and 
looked like children who had been robbed of their 



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toys. After the war stopped our old faithful 
horses were taken off our hands and were replaced by 
powerful trucks and tractors, and what horses were 
left (the veterinarian having exhausted all his pistol 
ammunition) we turned over to the other two regi- 
ments of the brigade. 

C Battery had the first casualty of the regiment on 
European soil, when Private Herman Ray accidentally 
drowned on July 4th at Coetquidan. Private Asberry 
Brown had his leg broken by a caisson on the hike 
to the Argonne. These were the only casualties and 
accidents sustained in the battery during our many 
activities on European soil. 

The battery, originally composed of Nashville men. 
was afterwards filled up with men from other States, 
coming via National Army route. These men for 
the most part made worthy additions to the battery, 
and shared in our recent successes. 

ROSTER OF BATTERY C 
1 I 5th Field Artillery 

Asterisk (*) denoles served with First Tennessee Infantry 
on Mexican border. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
*West, Oscar D 313 Russell St., Nashville, Tenn. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Warren, Robert 200 3rd Ave., N.. Nashville. Tenn. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
*HoNEVcuTT, Leslie R....205 N. 16th St., Nashville, Tenn. 

SERGEANTS 

Mason, Guy Gen. Del., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Matthai, James C 747 Argyle Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Morgan, George E 227 Mark St., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Crumpler, Sandy A.. . .71 1 McGavock St., Nashville, Tenn. 

*BouLTON, Paschal L 605 Cedar St., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Blackburn, George M Springfield, Tenn. 

Stacker, Clay Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Stamps, Frank H....1311 I6lh Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Fry, Terry T Gen. Del., Nashville, Tenn. 

*DiX0N, Russell M Gen. Del., Gloster, Miss. 

*Mara, Lyle B 516 S. 13th St., Nashville, Tenn. 

CORPORALS 

*MooRE, Lewis E 483 Humphrey St., Nashville. Tenn. 

*Huffine, Harlan B Gen. Del.. Monterey, Tenn. 

*Greer, George B 1504 Gartland Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Barnes, Leonard D Gen. Del., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Rather, Gedie Gen. Del., Cross Plains, Tenn. 

*Brantley, John H Shelbyville, Tenn. 

*Davis, John H 1521 Delta Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Kennell. George H 808 Palmer PI., Nashville, Tenn. 

McGhee, William R Fayetteville, Tenn. 

Russell, Colonel R Newport, Tenn. 

♦Mitchell, Stanley A.. 1225 4th Ave.. N., Nashville, Tenn. 



*DUKE, Aaron F 322 S. 1 1th St., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Beerman. Wm. L 122 7th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Beeles, Jesse L 1615 11th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

*MadD0X, Orville 1007 Pennock Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Stanley, Claude Shelbyville, Tenn. 

*Curtiss, George R Shelbyville, Tenn. 

*Heffernan, Wm E I 18 5th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

♦Wallace, James C Lebanon, Tenn. 

EvERSON, Jesse L 2804 Craft St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Hightower, Claude R Lafayette, Tenn. 

Sager, Schley Burns, Tenn. 

McGhee, Joe 136 Filmore St.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Borders, James S R. R. A., Sullivan, Ind. 

Carney, Jesse C Ashland City, Tenn. 

♦Carter, Leonard P.. . .430 Wyoming Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

GoiNS, Silas L Route 1 , Bon Aqua, Tenn. 

Shope, George M Proctor, N. C. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 

♦Hanbury, Hugo R Hopkinsville, Ky. 

♦Porter, Chas. B 126 N. 1st St., Nashville, Tenn. 

MECHANICS 
Devine, Thomas D....320 18th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

DoiRON, Albert A 16 Valley St., Portland, Maine 

♦Hartley, Arthur B Madison, Tenn. 

Sevisend, Charles A Gettysburg, S. D. 

SADDLER 
Richards, Clarey T Bellebuckle, Tenn. 

WAGONERS 

Bearden, Hollis F Shelbyville, Tenn. 

BocusKiE, John T....1603 18th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Browder, William R Earlington, Ky. 

Cate, E. G. . . .5th Ave. and Commerce St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Collins, Elmer D...I803 12lh Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Farmer, Coy Greenfield, Tenn. 

♦FuQUA, Moses Springfield, Tenn. 

♦Hall, Hobson 1912 Heilman St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Harnish, Brahmin Colesburg, Tenn. 

♦HuTTON, Albert L 1204 Broad St., Nashville, Tenn. 

KuTZ, Julius A Areola, 111. 

♦Morgan, Fred J 625 3rd Ave., S., Na.ihville, Tenn. 

Sanders, William F Route 4, Nashville, Tenn. 

SzMULKAVITZ, Pius 1321 Albright Ave., Scranton, Pa. 

Smotherman, Jack E Route 1. Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

TwEETEN, Oliver B Hansler, N. D. 

Walker, Roy Bybee, Tenn. 

♦White, Lilliard L 1515 Arthur Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

BUGLERS 

♦Anderson, Wm. W 536 5lh Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

♦CoPELAND, John T 1 108 Wheeler St.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Richardson, Jas. M 716 Meridian St., Nashville, Tenn. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Anderson, James P 536 5th Ave., S.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Brantley, Clarence Shelbyville, Tenn. 

Buck, John E R. F. D. B. Olterbein, Ind. 

Carr, Raymond L 2614 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Corcoran, Joseph F 908 Gilmore St.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Duke, Carl M 2030 1 0th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 



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*DuNLAP. Ernest H Gleason, Tenn. 

*Ellis, Cecil G R. R. No. 1, Henry Slalion, Tenn. 

Epley, Ben Newport, Tenn. 

♦Fuller, John B 16061/, Church St., Nashville, Tenn 

Gannon, Andrew Murfreesboro, Tenn 

Harris, John C 911 32nd Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Hicks, Cortez E R. R. No. 2, Lyle, Tenn. 

Hill, Heiskell S Newport, Tenn 

*HoBSON, George B 828 4lh Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

HudgENS, Beecher H 600 S. 12lh St., Nashville. Tenn. 

*HUFFINE, Harry G Monterey, Tenn. 

Hughes, Clarence V Flattop, Tenn. 

Johnson. Joe H., Jr Monterey, Tenn 

Kennedy, John G 6 Aberdeen Apts., Nashville. Tenn, 

Larkin, Harvey P Gleason, Tenn 

Ledbetter, John T Shelbyville, Tenn, 

*LlST0N, Victor P. O., Nashville, Tenn. 

*MaRTIN, Joseph P... Frisco and Annex St., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Mas0N, John D 1503 Hayes St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Onstott, Joseph H R. R. No. 5, Marion, III. 

Padgett, Hobert M Newport, Tenn. 

Pergerson, Robt. D....5I00 Illinois Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
*Pressley, Clarence V....114 Lillian Si., Nashville, Tenn. 
*RlCE, Walton R Springfield, Tenn. 

Rush, Carl H 310 8lh Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Sanf0RD, Loyed Springfield, Tenn. 

*ScOTT, Macey O 168 Fain St., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Sexton, Tug Elmwood, Tenn. 

Stafford, Thomas Comersville, Tenn. 

Taylor, Cecil Shelbyville, Tenn. 

TrEANARY, IsIAH D Ridgetop, Tenn. 

Williams, Byrd 1609 Delta Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Wright, James P Monterey, Tenn. 

PRIVATES 
*Adams, Tom A Lebanon, Tenn. 

Anderson, Arthur W White Cloud. Mich. 

Andreoli. Lewis Iron River, Mich. 

Anglin, Thomas 318 Webster St., Greenville, S. C. 

Aydelotte, William L Florence, Ky. 

Barrett, Charles N 2411 S. 8th St., Omaha, Neb. 

Beahm, Earl Noxen, Pa. 

Beahm, Ira Noxen, Pa. 

*Bean, Roy B 407 Isl Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Beard, Hayes M Columbia, Tenn. 

Benefield, Solon G....1211 S. 11th St., Terre Haule, Ind. 

Briccs, Clyde 2208 S. 5tK St.. Shelbyville, III. 

Brown, Charles While Pine, Tenn. 

Bryant, William M Newport, Tenn. 

Butler, Samuel C 44 Railroad Ave., Milton, Pa. 

Campbell, Curtis F Cosby, Tenn. 

*Campbell. Frank G 105 26lh A%e.. S., Nashville. Tenn. 

Carter. Clarence P Carthage. Tenn. 

*Carter, James A 226 N. 2nd St.. Nashville. Tenn. 

Cohen, Max 3007 N. 22nd St.. Philadelphia. Pa. 

Daniel. Hansel R While Bluff. Tenn. 

*Davis. Samuel B 640 Bass St.. Nashville, Tenn. 

DiCKEN. Martin R Madison. Tenn. 

Fahey. John J 69 Mill St., Manchester, N. H. 



*Fest, Charles M Covington, Tenn. 

Filer, Lester B R. R. No. 2, Vandalia, III. 

Fleming. Michael J.. . .10 7th St.. N.E.. Washington. D. C. 

Folger. Paul K Route I. Box 22, Allen's Creek, Tenn. 

Fontaine, Joe 825 Spence St., Flint, Mich. 

Furrer, Charles J 2526 7th Ave., Altoona Blair, Pa. 

Garretson, Mitchell A R. F. D. 2, Morrislown, Tenn. 

Giafski, Stanley 176 West Ridge, Philadelphia, Pa. 

GiBBS, Beauford W Ashland City, Tenn. 

GiBBS, John J Newport, Tenn. 

GiRDOUCKi, Anthony F 32 North St., Forest City, Pa. 

Greeno, Morris E 915 Montrose Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Gummo, Jesse C Box 42, Mill Hall, Pa. 

Hall, Bryant J Burns, Tenn. 

Hall, Howard G Riverside St.. Columbia. Tenn. 

^Hamilton. Robert J. ...1900 Ellioit Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Harvison, John J Kimball, Tenn. 

*Hayes, Wilford C Cross Plains, Tenn. 

*Hunten, Morris H Springfield, Tenn. 

*Hobbs, George S 31 East Terrace 

Hodges. Archie Route 2. Lone Mountain, Tenn. 

Izmailowicz, Ign.acy 27 Bristol St.. New Haven. Conn. 

IanNANTONI, GussePPE. . .9 Railroad St., Plain Field, Conn. 
*James, Henry A 1404 4th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Janulewicz. John Ill Lemon Sl.. Holyoke. Mass. 

Jeffries, James J Salisbury, Pa. 

Johnson, John E Gleason, Tenn. 

Johnson, Lee J Route No. 1, Brislow, Okla. 

Johnson, William E Gleason. Tenn. 

Jones, Roy Af ten, Tenn. 

Keat, Willie 216 N. 7lh St.. Bangor. Pa. 

Kelley. George W Corydon, Iowa 

*Lee. E-^RNEST H.. .R. F. D. No. 7. Sta. B. Nashville. Tenn. 

Lichota. John W 186 28th St.. Detroit, Mich. 

LONCO, Frank 2026 Penn. Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Lorenzotti. Feliziano 1133 Main Si.. Old Forge. Pa. 

Loughrin. j. p.. . .2724 East Clairfield St.. Philadelphia, Pa. 

Lyons, Charles J 278 Poplar St., Plymouth, Pa. 

Magee, Joseph M R. F. D. No. 4, Monlicello, Ind. 

McClannahan, Jeff Buffalo, Ark. 

*McCleary, Scott D Lewisburg, Tenn. 

*McCoRD, Field C Woodbine Sta., Nashville. Tenn. 

McFaul, William R Springfield. Tenn. 

McKjtrick. Herman C Towanda, Pa. 

McNeil, Jason Whlteville, N. C. 

Miller, Ambrose Edgewood St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

*MooRE, Heber S 511 8lh Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Morgan, Thos. R 307 Treutland St., Nashville, Tenn. 

*M0TT. John R 519 S. 1 llh St., Nashville, Tenn. 

MuLDEN, Russell G Berlander, Kenton, Ky. 

Newman, Ed S Walden, Ark. 

NoRRis, Henry Newport, Tenn. 

NoRRIS, John W R. F. D. No. 2, Mountain City, Tenn. 

Owens, George W Clarksburg, III. 

Padgett, Richard Bybee, Tenn. 

Parks, Lee M Lynchburg, Tenn. 

Petriko. Mikta 417 S. 6th St.. Philadelphia, Pa. 

Phipps. James R. C Springfield. Tenn. 



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FIagan, Harlev P Clarksburg, 111. 

*Reese. Floyd L Lynchburg, Tenn. 

Reilly, Edwin F 1638 Main Si., Bridgeport, Conn. 

Rice, Crover C R. R. No. 2, Ml. Juliet, Tenn. 

Roberts, William O R. F. D. No. 5, Rutledge, Tenn. 

RouTH, Walter 3330 Parker St., Omaha, Neb. 

Sharpe, William M Andersonville, Tenn. 

Sheeler, Harry G 208 Marks Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Springer, Claude E Guys, Tenn. 

Stades, Joseph Maynard. Mass. 

'Stanford, Raleigh B Gen. Del., Atlania, Ga. 

Stevens, Willie E R. F. D. No. 1, Lebanon. Tenn. 



Stewart, Geop.ge W 306 8lh Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Still, Emmett L Thompson Slalion, Nashville, Tenn. 

SwAFFORD, Thomas J. R Liiton, Tenn. 

Treanor, Robert A 5003 Illinois Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

*TuRNER, William H 413 Russell St., Nashville, Tenn. 

WaDDELL, Sam 2224 Central Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

*Walls, Robert Gordonsville, Tenn. 

*White, William C Cross Plains, Tenn. 

Whited, John L R. F. D. No. II, Cross Plains, Tenn. 

WiGGS, Robert G R. F. D. No. 4, Lewisburg, Tenn. 

Williams, George W Point Rock, N. C. 

Willis, Homer S Gen Del., Nashville, Tenn. 




Medals and Insignia 

(I) Mexican Border Ribbon, National Guard. (2) 30th Division Insignia. (3) Victory Ribbon with two stars (4) 
Tennessee State Medal (or Mexican Border Service. (5) City of Memphis Medal for Mexican Border Service. (6) 
City of Nash.ille Medal for service in the World War. (7) American Distinguished Service Cross. (8) French Legion 
of Honor. (9) French Military Medal. (10) French Croix de Guerre. (II) German Iron Cross. 



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Battery D, 1 1 5th Field Artillery 



This organization dates back, as a battery, to Sep- 
tember 14, 1 9 1 7, at which time it was formed by con- 
sohdation of Companies G and H of the First Tennes- 
see Infantry, this regiment having been transformed into 
the i 15th Field Artillery. As far back as January 
26, 1914, however, you can trace one of these old 
companies which was merged into the present battei-y. 

Company H of the 2d Separate Battalion of Ten- 
nessee was formed and mustered into State service on 
January 26, 1914, composed of sixty-six men and 
three officers under the command of Captain B. G. 
Shoemaker. The other officers of the company were 
1st Lieut. John Turner and 2d Lieut. Morris Hart- 
man. 

Company G. of the 2d Separate Battalion of Ten- 
nessee, known as the Grenadier Guards, was formed 
at Nashville. Tennessee, on May 4, 1915, by Majoi 
John H. Samuels. As the result of the company elec- 
tion. Captain Charles H. Dezevalos was elected to the 
command of the company, with Lieuts. John H. 
Milam and Julias A. Johnson. The company, at this 
time, had eighty-one men and three officers. 

On March 21, 1915, Companies G and H were 
called into State service for duty at a (ire which de- 
stroyed a great portion of East Nashville, Tennessee. 
Here they were on duty for four days. 

On June 26th both companies were again mustered 
into State service. Company C forming Company G, 
First Tennessee Infantry, and Company H continuing 
under its same name. On July 1 0th the regiment 
was completely formed and mustered into Federal 
service. 

Company G, at this time, was commanded by Capt. 
John H. Milam, with Julias A. Johnson as First 
Lieutenant and Frank W. Bailey as Second Lieu- 
tenant, the strength of the company being one hun- 
dred and three men. Both companies remained in 
camp at Nashville. Tennessee, until September 1 6, 
1916, when they both entrained for the Mexican 
border. They were sent to Eagle Pass, Texas. 

From the 7th to the I 4th of October they partici- 
pated in the famous "Spoflord Hike." While on 
duly at the border various regimental shoots were held, 
in which Company G made the best record of the 
regiment. 



Returning from the border and reaching Memphis, 
Tennessee, the regiment was mustered out of Federal 
service and back into State service on March 24, 
1917. Immediately following this Companies G and 
H proceeded to Nashville, Tennessee, where they aft- 
erwards held weekly inspections and drills. 

Nineteen days of civil life found them anxiously 
awaiting the call which came April 1 2lh, and both 
companies reported at Camp Jackson, 2d Lieut. 
Frank Bailey in command of Company G, and Cap- 
tain Shoemaker in command of Company H. 

On May 22, 1917, Companies G and H went to 
East Tennessee for guard duty, having been mustered 
into Federal service on the preceding day. Company 
G was assigned to duty with headquarters at New 
Tazewell, Tennessee, having the Lonesome Valley 
and Lonesome Mountain bridges as main posts. Com- 
pany H was assigned to duty with headquarters at 
Knoxville, Tennessee, having various posts along the 
Southern Railway. 

On September Nth the First Tennessee Infantry 
was transformed into the I I 5th Field Artillery, Com- 
panies G and H forming what is now Battery D, 
1 1 5th Field Artillery. First Lieutenant Hugh B. 
Hooper was placed in command of the battery and 
Second Lieutenants Jules B. Rozier, Jr., and Marion 
R. Wenz were assigned to the battery. 

Leaving Camp Sevier May 1 9th. the battery 
reached Camp Mills, Long Island, New York, on 
May 20th, where it was met by Captain Hooper, 
who resumed command after having completed a 
course at Fort Sill School of Fire. 

After a very quiet trip across the Atlantic, landed 
at Liverpool, England, June I 1 th. Immediately after 
disembarking the battery entrained for Rest Camp No. 
2, Romsey, England, where it remained until the 
morning of the I 3th. The battery made a road march 
to Southampton and went aboard a Channel steamer, 
but was forced to leave the steamer and go back to 
Rest Camp just in the edge of the city. 

Went aboard the Channel steamer on the morning 
of the 1 5th, and after a quiet trip across the Channel 
landed in Le Havre, France, late in the afternoon of 
the 16th. 

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city, the battery entrained for Coetquidan to enter 
training course. 

Leaving Camp Coetquidan on August 26th, the 
battery arrived at Toul on August 28th, where it de- 
trained and proceeded toward the front. The nights 
of the 29lh, 30th, and 31st of August, and the night 
of September 2d were spent in road marches. On 
the night of September 3d the battery took up its first 
position near Mannonville. After three days spent 
here with no action, the battery was ordered to take 
up position north of Bernecourt, which it completed 
on the night of September 6th. During the day time 
no work was carried on, but the nights found the men 
improving gun positions. 

On the morning of September 12th the battery 
opened fire for the first time, taking an active part 
in the shelhng of enemy areas from 1 :00 A.M. until 
I 1 :00 A.M. During this time the men showed the 
greatest spirit and ability in serving the pieces. At 
4:00 P.M this date the guns were taken out of posi- 
tion and the battery proceeded to advance through 
Flirey, being halted here for some four hours, due 
to the condition of roads and traffic ; it then began the 
crossing of "No-Man's Land, " between Flirey and 
Essey. The remainder of the night was spent in tak- 
ing the material across, being assisted by two hun- 
dred engineers, sixteen horses and about ! 00 men to 
each piece. Reaching Essey about 1 :00 o'clock on 
the morning of the 1 3th, a few hours of rest were 
had, after which the battery proceeded forward 
through Bouillionville, taking up positions just in the 
rear of Thiaucourt. 

During the late afternoon of September 14th the 
battery took the road again, and after ten days' hard 
marching took up position near Avocourt. Upon 
leaving Bouillionville Captain Hooper assumed com- 
mand of the 2d Battalion and 1st Lieut. John F. 
Robertson took command of the battery. 

On the morning of the 26th an active part was 
taken in the opening of the Argonne drive, firing be- 
ginning at 1 :00 A.M., and continuing throughout the 
day. At this position Lieut. Roland D. Hall relieved 
Lieutenant Lyon as executive. Proceeding forward 
through Avocourt over "No-Man's Land," conditions 
were again encountered which required twenty horses 
and one hundred men to carry each piece over. This 
time position was taken up just in rear of Mountfaucon, 
where two days' action found another move necessary. 



Proceeding forward, the battery went into action just 
to the left of Mour.tfaucon, where it remained until 
the afternoon of October 8th, during which time con- 
siderable fire was delivered on enemy strong points. 
While at this position the battery lost the only man 
killed. While in this sector the battery supported the 
infantry of the 37th, 32d and 42d Divisions. 

After eleven days of activity in this sector the bat- 
tery proceeded to the Troyon sector, where it relieved 
D Battery of the 103d Field Artillery on the night 
of October 1 0th. Very slight action here. Proceeded 
from here to relieve a French battery on the ridge 
above St. Maurice. On the morning of the 1 7th this 
relief was completed, and fifteen days of position war- 
fare followed. While in this position Lieutenant San- 
born took up the duties of Orientation Officer, having 
been relieved at the echelon by Lieut. Harrison L. 
Taylor. 

November 7th proceeded to positions on ridge just 
south of Hannonville, where marked activity took place 
until 7:58 A.M., on November 1 I th, when the "order" 
of cease firing was received. 

While in this sector the battery supported the in- 
fantry of the 79th and 33d Divisions. 

ROSTER OF BATTERY D 

II 5th Field Artillery 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Ward, James C Centervllle, Tcnn. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
DuGGAN, Marshall Lewisburg. Tenn. 

SERGEANTS 

LovELL, LlNWOOD C Madison Slalion, Tenn. 

MooNEY, Bart J 824 Oak St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Rayburn, Jesse J Columbia, Tenn. 

GwiNNER. John T 902 Grove Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Gallagher, James G 1410 Sigler St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Bradshaw, Samuel P Lebanon, Tenn. 

Alexander. Augustus. .. 1514 Paris Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

McTlGUE, Edward 1021 15th .Ave., S., Nashville. Tenn. 

Nevins, Guy H 4-B Harding Court, Nashville, Tenn. 

Smith. Douglas E 336 Grace Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

DoDD, Harry E Oxford. Ala. 

CORPORALS 

Ferrell, Frank L Gallatin, Tenn. 

Green, Morgan L Route 3. Nashville, Tenn. 

Hunter, Herman A.. . .2211 lOih Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Russell. Alvin Glenrose Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Norman, Charles H 2527 Cruzen St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Patton, T. C . .Am. Bank BIdg., Gay St., Knoxville, Tenn. 



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Woodward, Felix E Lebanon Road, Nashville, Tenn. 

Morton, Tom C 814 Whitsllt Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Lassinc, John M Church St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Armistead, Elbert C...40I5 Bowling Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Fitzgerald, John W Route 2, Franklin, Tenn. 

Rogers, Marshall M.. .1515 Woodland St., Nashville, Tenn. 

PaTTON, Delma M Route 1. Nashville, Tenn. 

Kendrick, D. E 2825 West End Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Baker, Ernest R 2502 Belmont Blvd., Nashville, Tenn. 

Kain, Marlin a 1804 Grand Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Pellettieri, James E 1906 South St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Wray, Sam A 1316 McGavock St., Nashville, Tenn. 

COOKS 

Logue, Walter L Shelbyville, Tenn. 

Powell, Jesse T Villa Place, Nashville, Tenn. 

QuiNTON, Floyd H Morristown, Tenn. 

Taylor, William H Jacksboro, Tenn. 

HORSESHOERS 

Carpenter, John W Clarksville, Tenn. 

Painter, Harley L Route 1, Whitley ville, Tenn. 

Sutton, Jesse W Anderson, Tenn. 

CHIEF MECHANICS 

Boner, John L 2147 Oakland Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

McNiSH, Phillip 1407 Douglas Ave., Nashville. Tenn. 

MECHANICS 

McNlsH, John G 1407 Douglas Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Owen, James R 3312 Park Ave., West Nashville, Tenn. 

SADDLER 

PyRDUM, Carl S Shelbyville, Tenn. 

BUGLERS 

Peoples, Robert S Loone, Tenn. 

Sloan, James T 4407 Colorado Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Perry, Joseph J 322 Grace Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Anderson, Hansford H Jackson, Tenn. 

Branham, Joseph B Route 4, Gallatin, Tenn. 

Brock, Adrian G Sumrall, Miss. 

Brownlee, Otto 2602 Kline St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Burke, Wiliam J 3317 Park Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Burnett, Jones C Clinton, Tenn. 

Cannon, George L 1631 Arthur Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Cason, John F 1215 Pennock Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

CaTE, Jay H Kodack, Tenn. 

Coffee, Samuel S Gordonsville, Tenn. 

Crawford, Herschel P Elkton, Ky. 

Dicks, Ben W 905 Russell St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Dicks, John B 905 Russell St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Erwin, Joe G 3003 West End Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Fuller, Frank C Lebanon, Tenn. 

Gatlin, Mack M Route 9, Leipers Ford, Tenn. 

Goodrich, Joseph 504 Oak St., Nashville, Tenn. 

GouRLEY, Everett E Kansas Cily, Tenn 

Greer, Berry V 243 37ih Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Harris, Amos F Columbia, Tenn. 

Hays, Grady Reagan, Tenn. 



KiNCADE, Leslie J Columbia, Tenn. 

Latimer, Fred H Woodbine Sta., Nahsville, Tenn. 

Lonas, James H R. R. No. 7, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Long, Walter A Sevierville, Tenn. 

McDearman, William Lebanon, Tenn. 

McKee, Clyde Echols, Ky. 

Maddin, Sam F Columbia, Tenn. 

Manning. Ray E Morristown, Tenn. 

Mason, David L 2505 4lh Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Maxwell, Jake K Columbia, Tenn. 

Nicholson, Scott Neptune, Tenn. 

Owen, Robert 3312 Park Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Parrott, Otha W Sevierville, Tenn. 

Payne, Jonnie W Bullard, Texas 

Pearce, Albert C 2140 Carllon Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Pearre, Buford D 308 Russell St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Ratliff, James E Lynnville, Tenn. 

Robinson, John C Route 2, Ml. Juliet, Tenn. 

Russell, Douglas B Glenrose Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Simmons, Kelly B Johnsonville, Tenn. 

Supple. Harry L 56 W. Walnut St., Noblesville, Ind. 

SWAFFORD, JoESIAH H Hermitage, Tenn. 

Sweat, William La Follette, Tenn. 

Taylor, Loyd D Lorene, Tenn. 

Timothy, Humphrey W.. . .West End Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Tompkinson, Phillip K Phoenix, Ariz. 

Welton, Samuel R Nilwood, Illinois 

Whitman, Obie Cedar Hill, Tenn. 

PRIVATES 

Basham, William B Hickory Point, Tenn. 

BaUR, Oscar F Eastland Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Beasley, Aubrey B Dickson, Tenn. 

Betz, William E 203 Hunter St., Tamaqua. Pa. 

Blackman. Walter M North Carolina 

Bradley, John C Liberty, Tenn. 

Brandon, Charlie A.. . . 191 1 21st Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Brown, Robert B Lynnville, Tenn. 

Bryant, Ulysis Concord, Tenn. 

Belshe, James L Address Unknown 

Betz, William 203 Hunter St., Tamaqua, Pa. 

Blais, Felix 19 Clifton St., Cambridge, Mass. 

Buchkowskie, Anthony Kulpmoni, Pa. 

Byers. Samuel F Route 2, Nashville, Tenn. 

Capley, James D 2516 Cedar St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Capley, John F Columbia, Tenn. 

CooLEY, ROLLA Vandalia, 111. 

Coleman, Archie J 1700 Indiana Ave., Toledo, Ohio 

CoPENHAVER, Glenn Vandllla, III. 

Crocker, Martin H Seagoville, Texas 

Crowell, Clyde J Bristol, Tenn. 

CzEzus, Ignatz Norton Street, Plimuth,, Pa. 

DeMoss, Hugh D Ashland City, Tenn. 

Dennis, Ernest J Swansboro. N. C. 

Diamond, Walter Address Unknown 

Drinkard, H. H 2706 West End Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Dunn, Clark 1405 Linden Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

DuRDEN, Henry G Webb, Ala. 

Dyer, Addison C Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Eacerton, Millard Tennille. Ala. 

Echols, Howell C Pinckard, Ala. 

Enoe, Herbert S Great Barringlon, Mass. 

Falk. Talbert Morton's Gap, Ky. 

Farmer, Frank Belden, Miss. 

Flauss, Alfred P North Carolina 

Foster, John Clarksville, Tenn. 

Gideon, Fred Nashville, Tenn. 

Gillespie, James L Jamestown, Mo. 

GlossoM, EmrELL S Slylacauga, Ala. 

Gold, Rolland H Route 1, Nashville, Tenn. 

Graves, Andy J Sevierville, Tenn. 

Graves, Hall C Talladega. Ala. 

Green, Joseph L 8223 Gwinnelte St., Savannah, Ga. 

Grenholm, Paul 308 Lake St., Ironwood, Mich. 

Greeno, Richard M Montrose Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Harrison, Albert Flat Rock, Tenn. 

Holland, Elliott R Norih Carolina 

Ianni, Frederico 1931 Carson St., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Ingle, Rufus C Bishop, Texas 

Jett, Leroy Vandalia, 111. 

Jones, Kilbv B Route I, Chinquapin, N. C. 

Jones, Paul B Hillsboro Road, Nashville, Tenn. 

Kaliscz, William 99 Luzane, Pa. 

Lamb, William T Lone Mountain, Tenn. 

Ladd, James C Williamsport, Tenn. 

Lane, Athol C Columbia, Tenn. 

Lassinc, Henry C Church St., Nashville ,Tenn. 

Layne, Brown J Route 8, Nashville, Tenn. 

Lavioi.a, Seraphino Olyphant, Pa. 

Ledbetter, Riley C Wartrace, Tenn. 

LyeLL, Abshire Guthrie, Ky. 

Marfia, Peter Mansfield, Ohio 

McAndrew, Leo F 1728 Washburn St.. Scranton, Pa. 

McCoRVEY, David P Pulliam St., Atlanta, Ga. 

McDonald, Thomas B 171 Brook S t., Dunmor. Pa. 

Metcalfe, Richard V Medora, 111. 

MiNCY, William Woodbin? Sta., Nashville, Tenn. 

Morawskie, Joseph Scranlon, Pa. 

Morgan, Robert T Address Unknown 

Morton, Joe L 327 5th Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Nance, ThoS. M., Jr 1916 Slate St., Nashville, Tenn. 

OsBORN, Hubert Greenbrier, Tenn. 

Painter, John G Rout; 1, Whitleyvllle, Tenn. 



Parks, Robert S Knoxville, Tenn. 

Payne, Roy Gibson, Tenn. 

Penkoskie, Stanley P.... 2201 Ruffler St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Phelps, Charles J Berryhill Street, Nashville, Tenn. 

Philpot, Will Gainesboro, Tenn. 

Poskas, Walter Frankf ord. Pa. 

Powell, Lewis M Columbia. Tenn. 

Rader, Lewis A Beulahville, N. C. 

E^YMER, Horace L Goodleltsville, Tenn. 

QuiNN, Marion Beauville, N. C. 

Reagan, Daniel Route I, Seymour, Tenn. 

Robertson, C. E.. . . 14th and Douglas Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

RoFFE, Charles F Andover, New York 

Rebert, Dorsey L McKnightstown, Pa. 

Rick, John M Pittsburg, Pa. 

RiCBY, Frank R 925 West Tioga, St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Rossi, Ferdiano Philadelphia, Pa. 

Rushing, John 102 Houston St., Ft. Worth, Texas 

SpANCLER, William L 712 W. Mason St., York, Pa. 

Sanders. Robert B 721 Woodland St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Shaw, William C Columbia, Tenn. 

Simmons. George H Johnsonville, Tenn. 

SISOSKIE, Walter Osceola Mills. Pa. 

Smith, Noble A Clarksville, Tenn. 

Smith, William M 4603 Indiana Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Smith, Willis H Buffalo, Mo. 

Stantonsbury, William Liberty Hill, Tenn. 

Stratton, Franceway C Lebanon, Tenn. 

Sweeney. Jesse F Elmore Court, Nashville, Tenn. 

ToMALOTH, Anthony 34 Jackscn St., New York, N. Y. 

TiNSLEY, Shelah O Spencer. Tenn. 

Vesta, Vincent Oliphanl, Pa. 

ViCK, Herbert W Cookeville, Tenn. 

WalDIE, James W Gen. Del., Nashville, Tenn. 

Wall, William D East St. Louis, III. 

Webb, Francis R West End Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Welch, George W 117 6th Ave.. N.. Nashville, Tenn. 

White. Curry K 1302 Sirallon Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Wilson. George T Beulaville. N. C. 

Witt, William C 2400 McKinney Ave., Dallas, Tex. 

Wolfenarcer, Ch/^RLES A Washburn, Tenn. 

Wright, Charlie Lenox, Tenn. 

Yancis, Joseph Plimuth, Pa. 

Zabroskie, Mariano Olyphant, Pa. 



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Battery E, 1 1 5th 



This organization was created September 14, 1917, 
through the merging of Companies I and K. of the 
First Tennessee Infantry. At this time its officers were 
John D. Key, Captain; H. H. Temple and Frank 
W. Bailey, First Lieutenants; H. I. Mainord and C. 
S. Underwood, Second Lieutenants. 

Of the two composing units, I Company was com- 
posed of men drawn chiefly from Memphis, while 
K Company came originally from Jackson, Tenn. 

The former organization was formed in the fail of 
1915, composed of members of the Chickasaw Club 
of Memphis, and known as the Chickasaw Guards. 
It was chartered December 22, 1915, and known in 
State militia circles as Company B, unattached. At 
the time of organization this company was officered by 
Capt. Wm. H. Kyle, 1st Lieut. W. P. Scobey and 
2d Lieut. Julius A. Gunther. 

The Jackson company dates back a number of 
years, and has been known under several different 
company names, among others the Jackson Grays. 
When first called into Federal service, before going 
to the Mexican border, it was officered by Capt. 
Glenn T. May, 1 st Lieut. Hugh H. Temple, and 2d 
Lieut. Lloyd L. Roberts. 

Both organizations were called into service as State 
militia for Mexican border service on June 18, 1916, 
and were mobilized at Nashville, Tenn., on June 26th. 
They were mustered into Federal service July 3d. 
The Memphis company was mustered in as Company 
I, and the Jackson company as Company K, First 
Tennessee Infantry. The regiment left for the Mexi- 
can border on September 16th and arrived four days 
later. 

The regiment left the border to return to Nash- 
ville March 15, 1917. Was mustered out of Fed- 
eral service on March 24th, and called back again on 
April 1 2th. It was mobilized at Camp Jackson, 
Nashville, on April 26th. Company I was sent to 
Columbia on May 25th for bridge guard duty. Com- 
pany K was sent to Clarksville. Each spent a month 
on such duly, returning to Nashville June 25th. Com- 
pany K was ordered to Greenville to Camp Sevier as 
advanced detachment of the regiment and left August 
1 4th. Company I followed on September 9th. 

Two changes occurred in the officer personnel of the 



Field Artillery 

two organizations between the time they were called 
back into service after returning from the border and 
the departures for Camp Sevier. Lieut. W. P. Sco- 
bey transferred to the regular army and was succeeded 
in I Company by 1st Lieut. Frank W. Bailey. In 
K Company 2d Lieut. Lloyd L. Roberts was replaced 
by Lieut. Hugh I. Mainord. 

In the absence of Capt. John D. Key on detached 
service at the School of Fire at Fort Sill, Okla., the 
battery was under the command of Lieut. Frank W. 
Bailey. Beginning March 6th Lieutenant Bailey was 
in command until he left for overseas with the regi- 
mental advance school detachment on April 30th. 
Lieut. Amos E. Shirley was then placed in command 
and continued until June 25th, when relieved by Capt. 
Innis Brown. 

TTie present officers of the organization are Capt. 
Innis Brown, 1st Lieuts. Horace D. Payne and Mat- 
thew G. Reynolds, Jr., and 2d Lieuts. Edward J. 
Roxbury and George M. Schwartz. Other officers 
who have served with the organization are : 1 st 
Lieuts. Richard B. Hager and Walter S. Trumbull, 
and 2d Lieuts. Jos. D. Webster. Wm. R. Copeland 
and Hamill W. Baker. 

The two companies forming E Battery have 
achieved the enviable distinction of having had no 
less than seventy-four men from their ranks commis- 
sioned. 

ROSTER OF BATTER^' E 
1 1 5th Field Artillery 

Asterisk (*) denotes served with First Tennessee Infantry 
on Mexican border. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
*Davant, James S 187 McLain Ave., Memphis. Tenn. 

MESS SERGEANT 

*LoNG. Ernest W Corinth, Miss. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 

*WoLFE, Paul S 58 N. 3rd Si,, Memphis, Tenn. 

SERGEANTS 

*Welch, Terelius J Stanton. Tenn. 

*RoBERTS, Pete Jackson. Tenn. 

*Shepherd, Douglas N.. . .1369 Court Ave., Memphis. Tenn. 

*DoUGLAS, Richard R Ill S. Front St., Memphis, Tenn. 

*Reagin, Charles E 1085 Neptune St., Memphis, Tenn. 

*BowEN, Arthur M., Jr 963 S. Willett, Memphis, Tenn. 

*CURRY. Elgin H Y. M. C. A., Memphis. Tenn. 



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*Hays, Joseph G 1532 Madison, Memphis, Tenn. 

Tinkle, Harry H 243 Oak Ave., Jackson, Tenn. 

Rollins, Edgar F 79 N. Waikins, Memphis, Tenn. 

CORPORALS 

*MiTCHELL, George D 651 Looney St.. Memphis, Tenn. 

*Pepper, Samuel A 51 S. Main St., Memphis, Tenn. 

*GuNN, Marco C 947 Lamar Blvd.. Memphis, Tenn. 

Perry, John W Stanton, Tenn. 

Marmon, Edwin L 1530 Hirberl Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Irby, Dabney S 1497 Carr A e.. Memphis, Tenn. 

O'CoNNER, Daniel F Humboldt. Tenn. 

Noel. Clarence A 163 Poplar St., Jackson, Tenn. 

Black, Robert W Toone, Tenn. 

McGee, Joseph R 1284 Jefferson St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Allen, Gordon P 70 N. Bellevue, Memphis, Tenn. 

Steinecker, R. E 752 West .Armstrong. Frankfort, Ind. 

Cupp, Charlie E Sharon, Tenn. 

Lashley, Jai«ES L 249 West Chester St., Jackson, Tenn. 

Smith, Robert A R. F. D. No. 5, Covington, Tenn. 

LeBosquet, Henry Si. Elmo Apis., Little Rock, Ark. 

CoMPTON. Graydon H Westport. Tenn. 

Culver, Herbert .A... 1441 Peabody Ave.. Memphis, Tenn. 

Mann, Vernon L Brownsville, Tenn. 

*Tatum, George E Humboldt, Tenn. 

Beasley, Allison T 599 Vance Ave.. Memphis, Tenn. 

Seddens, Leo I Whiteville, Tenn. 

Weddle, Nathaniel Wilmore, Kan. 

Mooney, Charles P 692 Monroe Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

CHIEF MECHANICS 
Lattanner, Adam J 628 Pontotoc St., Memphis, Tenn. 

MECHANICS 

Keller. Walter G Toone, Tenn. 

LiLE, James H 118 Institute St., Jackson, Tenn. 

Wilder, Ray S Pontotoc, Miss. 

YouNT, Granville E Greenwood, Ind. 

COOKS 

Cantlon, Adam 402 Church St., Clarksville. Tenn. 

Dudley, James E Juno, Tenn. 

*Hunt, Robert B Covington, Tenn. 

McCoMMON, Bailey 242 West Chester, Jackson, Tenn. 



*Fly, Monte E 



SADDLER 
R. F. D. No. 4, Milan, Tenn. 



WAGONERS 

Alexander, George O R. F. D. No. I, Stanton, Tenn. 

*Buffaloe, Clyde H Memphis, Tenn. 

*Chandler, Marvin D Wilson, Ark. 

Cox, Mose H Alamo. Tenn. 

Duncan. Cl.^rence G....1205 Mississippi, Memphis, Tenn. 

English. Basil O Brownsville, Tenn. 

French, Earl L Hamilton, N. Y. 

Hunter, Sam T Dancyville. Tenn. 

Loyd, Dewey D 430 Exchange St.. Jackson. Tenn. 

Massey, John P Buckhart, Mo. 

Shellabarger, Ira L Bells, Tenn. 

Shotts, Jesse L Bemis, Tenn. 



Stuart, Albert W Vildo, Tenn. 

Sutton, John E 350 King Si., Jackson, Tenn. 

Thomas, Wesley D 141 Parsonage St., Jackson, Tenn. 

Turner, Harry R Avoca, Ind. 

White, Walter S Scotis Hill, Tenn. 

Wilson, James F Bolivar, Tenn. 

Williams, George E Bemis, Tenn. 

BUGLERS 

Crook. Frank 65 Ewing St.. Peru. Ind. 

*HlLL, Frank B Humboldt, Tenn. 

*Stansell, David C Nashville, Tenn. 

PRIN'.ATES, FIRST CLASS 

Agee, Omer N R. F. D. No. 1, Walertown, Tenn. 

*Alexander, James B 32 S. Tucker Sl., Memphis, Tenn. 

Anderson, Clarence L.. . .R. F. D. No. 2, Pikeville. Tenn. 

Barger. Crofford W.. . .R. F. D. No. 1, Parrolsville, Tenn. 

BarNETT, John A R. F. D. No. 4, Humboldt. Tenn. 

BevIL, DelBERT S Jackson, Tenn. 

Braden, William E R. F. D. No. 2, Speedwell, Tenn. 

Brandt, Henry M 1948 Harbert Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Brooks, James G 426 Garland Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Brown, George R R. F. D. No. 3. Denmark, Tenn. 

Gates, Angus B Burlison, Tenn. 

Charles, Mor\-ville New York 

Clabo, James N 2410 Jefferson Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Cox. Coy M 209 Tennessee St., Bemis, Tenn. 

CusHiNG, Homer Bemis, Tenn. 

*DlX0N, George E Buntyn, Tenn. 

Dobson, Lawrence W.. . .R. F. D. No. 8. Greenville, Tenn. 

DoDDS, MuRRY A Beech Bluff, Tenn. 

Emerson, Frank R Greenville, Tenn 

*GiBBS, Charles W R. F. D. No. 3, Jackson, Tenn. 

Gill, Homer L Humboldt, Tenn. 

*H.«WELL. John R 817 Wick St., Corinth, Miss. 

Hu.NT, Leon G., Covington, Tenn. 

Hurt. Zerah D 994 Woodlawn St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Innis, James C Bemis, Tenn. 

Jenkins, Walter A....R. F. D. No. 2, Morristown, Tenn. 

McCarti-, Cleo Cutler, Ind. 

McKlBBEN, Robert E Humboldt. Tenn. 

Matkins, William A Pme Bluff, Ark. 

May, Morgan B 1271 Vinton A\e., Memphis, Tenn. 

Merrin, Edwin H Memphis, Tenn. 

Milestone, Richard. . .35 S. Lumpkins St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Nash, Garland S Humboldt, Tenn. 

OWENSBY. Jeter P 1321 West 4th St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Parker. Howard N Covington, Tenn. 

*Perrv, James T Jackson, Tenn. 

*Ransom, Oswald P 1508 Harbert Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Robertson, Henry B Box No. 23, Henderson, Tenn. 

Savois, Albert Breauxbridge, La. 

Smith, Roy P 800 East Chester, Jackson, Tenn. 

Sparks. Ebb W Scotts Hill, Tenn. 

Steelman. Albert P Humboldt. Tenn. 

*Wallace. James A Livingston, Tenn. 

*YoRK, \Xtlliam M RED. No. 3, Jackson, Tenn. 



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PRIVATES 

BabCOCK, Arthur W 20 Front St., Marlboro, Mass. 

Black, Carey M 227 S. McLain Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Boone, Arthur H Hampden Highlands, Me. 

Boone, Arthur B 213 Shelby St., Jackson, Tenn. 

Brewer, Don C Macy, Ind. 

Butler, Hugh L Jackson, Tenn. 

CaNTHON, Adam 402 Church St., Clarksville, Tenn. 

CaIVIPDELL, McKinlEY Mason, Tenn. 

Chiauzzi, Joseph 76 Norwood St., Springfield, Mass. 

CooNEY, John E Horn Lake, Miss. 

Collier, Robert T Humboldt, Tenn. 

*CooPER, John A Buntyn, Tenn. 

Cummins, Kirby Georgetown, Ky. 

Davenport, Olive C Bemis, Tenn. 

Davis, Barton B Colfax. Ind. 

*Deming, Everette W Jackson, Tenn. 

DeSaussure, Charles A Collierville, Tenn. 

Doty, Bennett J 1743 Overton Park, Memphis, Tenn. 

Druding, Frank A 419 Nalrona Ave., Casper, Wyo. 

Edwards, Monroe 420 Peace St., Raleigh, N. C. 

EldridGE, Will B 15C0 Monroe Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Eves, John R Gadsden, Tenn. 

*FuerSTACKE. John A Jackson, Tenn. 

Forsythe, Robert R. F. D. No. 8, Humboldt, Tenn. 

*Fox, George H 580 N. 4th St., Memphis, Tenn. 

French, Callier Sharon, Tenn. 

French, Dennis L Sharon, Tenn. 

Gaines, Bobbie Williamsport, Ind. 

Garbrean, John L 720 Manilla Si., Pittsburg Pa. 

Garrett, Coe L Bemis, Tenn. 

Garry, Michael 653 Catherine St., Utica, N. Y. 

George, Arthur. . .2021 East Clearfield, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Giannone, ViNCENzo 124 N. 7ih St., Springfield, 111. 

Glosson, Nelse H Humboldt, Tenn. 

Greenberc, Louis 36 Varet St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Hamilton, Fred M Jackson, Tenn. 

Harrison, John H 1961 Nelson St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Head, Tom W Trczevant, Tenn. 

Hill, Jack R. F. D. No. 1, Whileville, Tenn. 

Holder, Jesse E Finger, Tenn. 

HusKEY, Frank R. F. D. No. 1, Sevierville, Tenn. 

Johnson, Floyd W Jackson, Tenn. 

King, Ben I Brownsville, Tenn. 

Lamb, Roby H R. F. D. No. 3, Idol, Tenn. 

Large, Sanders C R. F. D. No. 10, Sevierville, Tenn. 

Lassiter, Homer P R. F. D. No. 3, Pinson ,Tenn. 

Leeper, Guy H R. F. D. No. 8, Jackson, Tenn. 

Lewis, George A 119 Gilford St., Lebanon, Pa. 

*LIVINGST0N, Sevier Brownsville, Tenn. 

McCann, James 703 Wilbur St., South Fork, Pa. 

McLain, Martin J 136 Middle Ave., Jackson, Tenn. 

*MaY, Jack L Jackson, Tenn. 

MedLIN, ZelMAR R. F. D. No. 1, Jackson, Tenn. 

Miller, Joseph D R. F. D. No. 1, Jackson, Tenn. 

Mitchell, Cohn J R. F. D. No. 5, Humboldt, Tenn. 

Moorman, Guy McLainsboro, 111. 

Murphy, Benedict E 4th St., McMehen, W. Va. 



Muessicman, John Philadelphia, Pa. 

Myers, Jacob 701 Oxford Sl, Philadelphia, Pa. 

*Newberry, Aubrey C Jackson, Tenn. 

Newmover, Leo M 338 Mulberry St., Reading, Pa. 

NosAZEWSKI, S. F....4944 Richmond SL, Philadelphia, Pa. 

O'CoNNELL, James J.. . .2319 Meredith Sl, Philadelphia, Pa. 

O'DoNNELL, Wm. E 540 Sweelbr;er St., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Parish, Hobert O Bemis, Tenn. 

Paterno, John Vueland, N. J. 

Pease, John S Nelson, Pa. 

Phillips, Jesse Monterey, Tenn. 

PuGLIESE, Pasquale. . .2807 Lawrence St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Pulley, William C Stanton, Tenn. 

Rains, Henry T Conway, Ark. 

Ray, Charles W R. F. D. No. 1, Waynesboro, Tenn. 

Ray, James S Tullahoma, Tenn. 

Recker, Mark A Mulberry, Ind. 

Riley, Ch/rlie O R. F. D. No. 3, Clifton, Tenn. 

Roof, Toy R. F. D. No. 1, Chester, S. C. 

Rose, Jesse E Covington, Tenn. 

Roybal, Rodolfo, D San Luis, Colo. 

RucKO, Michael 53 Bolin Ave., Pittston, Pa. 

Schanne, Frank Philadelphia, Pa. 

ScHLOSSER, Jacob E 631 N. 3rd St., Memphis, Tenn. 

ScHULZ, Hugo P Pottsville, Tex. 

ScHWEIGERT, Lewis A 25 Fairview St., Schuylkill, Pa. 

Sagen, Lester Crystal Falls, Mich. 

Samuels, Wm. C 305 N. Watkms St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Sanders, Paul E Hampton, S. C. 

Savage, Ollie G 1605 Nassau St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Scott, Luke Gainsboro, Tenn. 

Scott, Zed W 123 Thomas St., Spartanburg, S. C. 

Shinault, Joseph C Mason, Tenn. 

Stephens, Albert C Glenoby, Tenn. 

*STRlCKLtN, Floyd C Gibson, Tenn. 

Sullivan, Lee W Newtonville, Ala. 

Swanick, James M 104 Powderly St., Carbondale, Pa. 

Sweeney, Anthony J Philadelphia, Pa. 

Sweeney, Peter 543 Miin St., Sugarnoich, Pa. 

*SwiFT, Park B Greenbrier, Tenn 

Thomas, Cleo E Jackson, Tenn. 

Thompson, Joseph L....327 Jackson St., Greenwood, S. C. 

Thornell, Fred M Ethel, Miss. 

TiMLAKE, Nelson 204 Penn St.. Corinth, Miss. 

Tompkins, Oren 739 Breedlove St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Trumbet, Nicholas Irondale, Ohio 

Tucker, L. E 1619 East Beard St., Memphis, Tenn. 

VadeN, Willie A Minglewood, Tenn. 

Wallace, Willie M Livingston, Tenn. 

Waller, Albert R F. D. No. 3, Jackson, Tenn. 

Walsh, Hubert V Claikson Ave., Jessup, Pa. 

Webb, Clyde H 234 Talbot Ave., Jackson, Tenn. 

Whitehead, Geo. ...3505 Frankfort Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Whitlock, Roy R. F. D. No. 1, Paxton, Ind. 

Williamson, Sam Spartanburg, S. C. 

ATTACHED SERGEANT 
*Moore, Dexter S Humboldt, Tenn. 







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Battery F, 1 1 5th Field Artillery 



The personnel of Battery F, 1 15th Field Artillery, 
is made up largely of men from the State of Tennes- 
see. The battery was formed by the consolidation 
of Companies L and M of the First Tennessee In- 
fantry, N. G., which were, in 1916, called into 
service during the Mexican crisis. L Company was 
recruited from Clarksville and Columbia; M Com- 
pany from Livingston and Dyersburg, Tennessee. Of- 
ficers and men composing these companies, until the 
draft laws went into effect in 1917, were, almost 
without exception, Tennesseans. At present, however, 
while the majority are Tennesseans, there are men from 
practically every State in the Union in this battery. 

Subsequent to the President's proclamation of June, 

1916, L and M Companies reported at Nashville, 
Tenn., and on July 3, 1916, were mustered into 
Federal service. There the First Tennessee Infantry 
was organized, the companies equipped, and some 
months' training undergone. 

On September 15, 1916, the regiment departed for 
Eagle Pass, Texas, arriving there on the 1 9th. After 
ten days' quarantine the regiment was given six weeks 
training in minor infantry warfare, officers of the regu 
lar army, whose units were stationed at Eagle Pass 
Texas, conducting the instruction. This training cul 
minated in maneuvers, covering a period of one week 
and involving the entire garrison of Eagle Pass, Texas 
approximately eight thousand men. 

The guarding of the bridges across the Rio Grande 
River was the chief duty performed by L and M 
Companies while in Texas. 

On March 26, 1917, the regiment, after transpor- 
tation to Memphis, Tenn., was mustered out of Fed- 
eral service, but following the declaration of war with 
Germany was again called into service, April 12, 

1917, going to Camp Andrew Jackson, near Nash- 
ville, Tenn. Four months were devoted to guard duty 
of railroads and bridges in the State of Tennessee. 
On September 8, 1917, the regiment entrained and 
the next day arrived at Camp Sevier, near Greenville, 
S. C. Here on the ! 4th of the same month the 
regiment, so long identified as the First Tennessee In- 
fantry, passed into history and became the I 1 5th Field 
Artillery. L and M Companies were consolidated 
and made into Battery F of this new arm of service. 



The period to May 19, 1918, was devoted to 
artillery training, the battery taking part in target 
practice at Cleveland Mills, S. C. The call came 
for overseas service, and on May 19, 1918, the bat- 
tery entrained for Camp Mills, Long Island, arriving 
there May 22, 1918. On June 4th the regiment, 
on board H. M. S. Mauretania, left the shores of the 
United States, and arrived at Le Havre, France, June 
15, 1918, having gone by way of Liverpool and 
Southampton, England. Several days later at Camp 
de Coetquidan, France, courses of instruction and 
training were begun which continued till August 24th, 
when the battery, equipped with 155 m-m Schneider 
howitzers, entrained for Toul, France, ready for the 
work in which it had so long hoped to participate. 
Having arrived at Toul on August 27, 1918, the 
battery proceeded by night marches to the front, tak- 
ing up positions near Manonville and Noviant. The 
first firing was done September I, 1918. Then the 
battery participated in the St. Mihiel Offensive, which 
began .September 12, 1918, and was, while thus en- 
gaged, subjected to heavy artillery fire near Thiau- 
court. 

Leaving Thiaucourt on September 14th, the bat- 
tery proceeded, traveling at night, by forced marches 
and under adverse conditions, to a position near Avo- 
court, France, in the Verdun Sector. Here, on the 
morning of September 26th the battery participated in 
the opening of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. After 
firing for several hours the battery was ordered to ad- 
vance. The new position, but two kilometers south 
of Montfaucon, was occupied September 27, 1918. 
While at Avocourt, Privates Isham B. and Alonzo 
K. Smith were killed, and 1st Sergeant James C. 
Guthrie suffered wounds which later proved fatal. 
Here also Private Elbert Norrod was wounded by 
enemy shell. On October 1 , I9I8, the battery moved 
into a more advanced position to the left of Mont- 
faucon. Privates William B. Elliott and Francesco 
Gaudino were wounded while in this position by enemy 
shell fragments. Much of the firing was done upon 
Hill 240, which, for so long, held back the advance 
of American troops in this immediate locality. 

On October 12, 1918, with the assistance of the 
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moved into position on the bluffs above Hannonville, 
France, overlooking the Valley of the Woevre, which 
position was occupied as a defensive position until 
November 1 0th. Here the battery took part in the 
First Offensive of the Second Army on November 
I 0th and I Ith, in support of the 33d Division. The 
firing on the town of Marchville and the Bois d'Har- 
ville, which has been the subject of favorable com- 
ment, was partly the work of this organization. 

On November 11, 1918. orders to cease firing, 
in view of the signing of the armistice with Germany, 
were given, and at 8:00 A.M. the last shot was fired. 

From the time of the organization of L and M 
Companies of the First Tennessee Infantry, through 
the time when these two companies were consolidated 
to form F Battery of the 1 1 5th Field Artillery, and 
till the end of the war, the officer personnel has seen 
many changes. However, these changes were made 
to fill more urgent needs in the regiment or elsewhere. 

L Company was organized by A. W. Cabler, who 
was made its first Captain, which position he held 
until April 12th, when he was succeeded by Captain 
Otho Robinson. Captain Robinson remained in com- 
mand until September 14, 1917, when the company 
became a part of F Battery. M Company was or- 
ganized by James W. Burks, who became its first 
Captain. This position he retained till about Feb- 
ruary I, 1917. when he was succeeded by Captain 
Jones, who remained its commander until this com- 
pany also lost its identity and became a part of Bat- 
tery F. 

Captain, now Major Robert M. Milam, was the 
first commander of F Battery. He was relieved by 
1st Lieutenant McDaniel, having been ordered to 
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for technical artillery training. 
Lieutenant, now Captain, Innis Brown was later given 
command of E Battery. At this time he was suc- 
ceeded by I St Lieutenant, now Captain, Andrew J. 
Donelson, the present commander. 

While in training at Camp de Coetquidan, the bat- 
tery was organized on a war basis with the following 
officers: Capt. Andrew J. Donelson, commanding; 
I St Lieut. J. George Dobie, executive ; I st Lieuts. 
Richard B. Hager and George W. Brown; 2d Lieuts. 
Aura R. Bradley, Foster J. Milliken, Edward J. 
Roxbury. At the time the regiment went into action 
at St. Mihiel Lieutenant Hager left the battery to be- 
come Regimental Gas Officer. Lieutenants Brown 



and Bradley assisted Lieutenant Dobie as executives. 
Later Lieutenant Bradley commanded the echelon. 
About this time Lieutenants Dobie, Milliken and Rox- 
bury were transferred to other organizations in the 
regiment. On September I 5th, when the regiment was 
withdrawing from the St. Mihiel Offensive, 2d Lieu- 
tenants Scarff and Laramore joined it and were as- 
signed to F Battery for duty. Lieutenant Scarff as- 
sumed his duties as echelon commander, relieving 
Lieutenant Bradley, who then became executive. 
Lieutenant Scarff continued in this capacity until about 
the middle of October when he became assistant ex- 
ecutive and was relieved by Lieuteuant Brown. Lieu- 
tenant Laramore acted as assistant executive from the 
time of his assignment until the battery moved into 
the Valley of the Woevre, when he was detailed to 
the 158th Infantry, 66th Infantry Brigade, as regi- 
mental Liaison Officer, which position he held until 
the signing of the armistice. Lieutenant Brown acted 
as Munitions Officer and Orientation Officer at vari- 
ous times throughout the period spent on the front. 
2d Lieut. Frank Lockett joined the battery Novem- 
ber I St, and acted as assistant executive until the close 
of the war. 

ROSTER OF BATTERY F, 
II 5th Field Artillery 

Asterisk (*) denotes served with First Tennessee Infantry 
on Mexican border, 

FIRST SERGEANT 
*Keeton, BuRRls E Livingston, Tenn. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
*Matthews, James B Clarksville, Tenn. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Kleeman, Earl M Claiksvilie, Tenn. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
MlNTON, Louis J 1418 18lh Ave., N , Nashville, Tenn. 

SERGEANTS 

*Gailbreath, Bowen B Gainesboro, Tenn. 

*Baker. Ralph A Dyersburg, Tenn. 

Long, Thomas W.. . .307 E. Oklahoma St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Rogers, John Clinton Pike. Knoxville, Tenn. 

Wright, Scott Lenoir City, Tenn. 

Devitt, Charles T Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Gragg, Walter L Crawford, Tenn. 

*FowLKES, Harrell P Dyersburg, Tenn. 

*Bruce, Roger M 1922 5th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Marshall, Horace D Clarksville, Tenn. 

CORPORALS 

*Smith, Burnley D R. F. D. No. 4, Clarksville, Tenn. 

^Council, Robert T Hickory Point, Tenn. 



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HoLLEMAN, James G Claiksville, Tenn. 

*PiLKiNTON, Herbert E Columbia, Tenn. 

*Orr, James H Lewisburg, Tenn. 

Holmes, David C 2436 Magnolia Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Knaffl. Samuel A 918 S. Gay St., Knoxville. Tenn. 

Batson, Horace F Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Lacev, Melville Livingslon, Tenn. 

Agee, John L R. F. D. No. 1, Pikeville, Tenn. 

Faschall, Ben T Clarksville, Tenn. 

Hutchinson, Boyd M.. . .R .F. D. No. 2, Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Ervin, James B Dyersburg, Tenn. 

*Moonev, James J R. F. D. No. 6, Columbia, Tenn. 

Agee, Fred O Pikeville, Tenn. 

*TURNAGE, Lenard a Columbia, Tenn. 

*Griner, Dennis E Hohenwald, Tenn. 

*PuRSELL, Jesse H Dyersburg, Tenn. 

*Mallory, Alva Elkion, Ky. 

Bacgett, Lee H R. F. D. No. 1, Palmyra, Tenn. 

*PlGG, Guy W Summerlown, Tenn. 

Richardson, William B Quebeck, Tenn. 

Watts, Charles P R. R. No. 2, Clinton, Ind. 

COOKS 

*Wells, Charles L Byrdslown, Tenn. 

Tramill, John S R. F. D. No. 6, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Yarbrough, Carney Cunningham, Tenn. 

McCollum, Floyd B.. . .301 Sparta St., McMinnville, Tenn. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 
*Perry, Jessie F R. F. D. No. 6, Clarksville, Tenn. 

MECHANICS ' 

McInturff, W. H 1363 Chestnut St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Moore, William F Gen. Del., Jefferson City, Tenn. 

*White, Robert J Columbia, Tenn. 

HORSESHOERS 

*NoRROD, Fletcher J Overton County, Tenn. 

Norrod, Elbert Crawford, Tenn. 

Williams, John H Lewisburg, Tenn. 

SADDLERS 

BiBY, Joel R Monroe, Tenn. 

*Little, Benton M Livingston, Tenn. 

BUGLERS 

Adwell, Samuel E Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Grier. Joe L Dyersburg, Tenn. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 
*Allen, Pete R. F. D. No. 1, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Austin, George B R. F. D. No. 1, Mt. Airy, Tenn. 

Bagwell, Emmett G R. F. D. No. 2, Clarksville, Tenn. 

BiNKLEY, Emanuel R. F. D. No. 3, Clarksville, Tenn. 

*BoMAN, Virgil Hanging Limb, Tenn. 

Boyd, Floyd 751 N. Market St., Dayton, Tenn. 

BoYLL, Owen Route B, Terre Haute, Ind. 

*Brandau, John A Clarksville, Tenn. 

Bruce, William B 1922 5lh Ave.. N., Nashville, Tenn. 

BuRFORD, Sidney R. F. D. No. 3, Lebanon, Tenn. 

"Carpenter, Otha W Clarksville, Tenn. 



*Clark, William R Dyersburg, Tenn. 

Clements, John A Edgolen, Ky. 

Coleman, Jo 309 Arringon St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Deakins, George V R. F. D. No. I, Whitwell, Tenn. 

*Farley, Robert L Livingston, Tenn. 

Figueres, John C Columbia, Tenn. 

Foster, Mack T Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Grissom, Dennis E R. F. D. No. 1. Culleoka, Tenn. 

*Hardison, James A Columbia, Tenn. 

Hembree, Gordan D Quebec. Tenn. 

HoGUE, LoNNIE R. F. D. No. 6, Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Hudson, Stanley L Dyersburg, Tenn. 

*James, William B Big Rock, Tenn. 

*KlRK, Richard B Clarksville, Tenn. 

Lax, Robert G Dyersburg, Tenn. 

*Mabry, Robert M Clarksville, Tenn. 

Mattoon, Lee H Gen. Del., Canon City, Colo. 

Meeks, Clarence E Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Meeks, Robert B Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Morgan, Francis A Union Hill, Tenn. 

McDonald, Weldon McKenzie, Tenn. 

*Nellums, Nelson W Santa Fee, Tenn. 

Newberry, Curtis L Neltlecarrier, Tenn. 

Newberry, Thomas E Neltlecarrier, Tenn. 

*Norrod, Luther Hanging Limb, Tenn. 

*Parks, Samuel T Spring Hill, Tenn. 

Perry, Jacob Findlay, 111. 

*Petty, Thomas A R. F. D. No. 8, Columbia, Tenn. 

*Potter, Louis Clarksville, Tenn 

*Price, James E R. F. D. No. 2. Leoma, Tenn. 

PuLLEN, Ernest R. F. D. No. 10, Columbia, Tenn. 

RoMAlNE, Charles B Clarksville. Tenn. 

Rushing, Henry F Clarksville, Tenn. 

Smith, Garet Hanging Limb, Tenn. 

Smith, Tine M R. F. D. No. I, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Stone, Sidney L 602 Front St., Clarksville, Tenn. 

*St0UT, Ezra R Craw ford, Tenn. 

*Stout, Hardy Crawford, Tenn. 

Turner, Quint L R. F. D. No. 5, Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Turner, Terry T New Providence, Tenn. 

Weynick, Joe Cumberland City, Tenn. 

*White, Edgar Livingston, Tenn. 

White, George Livingston, Tenn. 

Wooten, Floyd A Chanute, Tenn 

PRIV.ATES 

Berta, John Box 62, Krebs, Okla. 

BiTTICK, Allen W 214 Jackson St., Tullahoma, Tenn. 

BoYLAN, Michael J 1848 5ih Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Brown, NarVES Crawford, Tenn. 

Brown, Pierce J 25 Clark St., Maiden, Mass. 

Brunty, Charles I Clarksville, Tenn. 

Burchett, Walter L Hilham, Tenn. 

*Carr. Harrison Livingston, Tenn. 

*Carsey, Overton Madison St., Clarksville, Tenn. 

Clements, George Pleasant Plains, 111. 

*Coker, Ernest A Lynnville, Tenn. 

Constant, Ila C Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Cooper, Lonzo E Crawford, Tenn 



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Cravens, Dewey Nellie Carrier, Tenn. 

DuLWORTH, James H Paylonsburg, Tenn. 

Durham, Clarence G Waverly. Tenn. 

Eagan, John H R. F. D. No. 1, Mt. Juliet, Tenn. 

Edwards, Verlin O Speedwell, Tenn. 

Flatford, James H R. F. D. No. 2, Haskell, Tenn. 

Fleming, Norman E R. F. D. No. 3, Sharpsburg, Ky. 

Flowers, Paul H 1018 Woodlawn Ave., Columbia, Tenn. 

Foster, Charlie S Summerlown, Tenn. 

FowLKES, Mercer L Clarksville, Tenn. 

Freeman, James M Hilsboro, N. C. 

Gaudino, Francesco 624 Windfield St.. Pittsburg, Pa. 

Gilliam, James P R. F. D. No. 3, Pulaski, Tenn. 

Gordon, Vince Manring, Tenn. 

*GoRE, Elmer M Livingston, Tenn. 

Gray, John L 2101 W. Somerset Sl, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Greene, Oliver T Clarksville, Tenn. 

Greer, Albert W High Point, N. C. 

Gustafson, Gustave E 25 Cross St., Waltham, Mass. 

Hale, Thomas E Etheridge, Tenn. 

Helm, George B 1 14 N. El Paso St., El Paso, Texas 

*Herod, Bose B 514 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn. 

*Hutchinson, William H....1569 Cora St., Springfield, O. 

Jones, Elon D Greenfield, Tenn. 

Jordan, James H Toone. Tenn. 

Kauffman, Henry N 957 Vim St.. Louisville, Ky. 

Knox, Odell Neptune, Tenn. 

Madara, Daniel B 130 N. Rock St.. Shamokin, Pa. 

Mann, Raymond N Villisca, Iowa 

Marable, James A. . . .R. F. D. No. 2, Double Springs, Ala. 

Martin, Thomas E Ridgetop, Tenn. 

MiCHALSKY, Joseph 324 W. Lloyd St., Shenandoah, Pa. 

MiCHLER, Stanley 416 Brooks St., Scranton, Pa. 

Minnier, Walter V North Bend, Pa. 

Morris, Guilford H Ashland City, Tenn. 

Murray, Aaron E R .F. D. No. 1. Muncy, Pa. 

*McElroy, Jesse Clarksville, Tenn. 

McGehee, Jessup Clarksville, Tenn. 

McLaughlin. H. M 2944 Judson St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

McFIae, William R Bergland, Mich. 

Nichols, Charles L Dyersburg, Tenn. 

NoRDELL, Arthur R. F. D. No. 4, Manion, Mich. 

Nvlander, George 820 1st Ave., Cadillac, Mich. 

Oldershaw, Earl 79 Abbott St., Plains, Pa. 

Pace, Carl S Woodford, Tenn. 

*Parker, Donnie S La Fayette, Tenn. 

Preacher, James B New Providence, Tenn. 

Perkins, John T Deweyville, Texas 



Pippin, Hobert L Adams, Tenn. 

Prendercast, Jas. M 2536 Swann St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Prouch, John H 1124 Moore St., Huntingdon, Pa. 

PUGH, James H Monterey, Tenn. 

QuisT, Elmer W Alwater, Minn. 

Race William M R. F. D. No. 4, Williamstown, Ky. 

Richardson, Isaac E Pleasantview. Tenn. 

Robertson, Joseph T Skipperville, Ala. 

Rollins, John G....R. F. D. No. 1, Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Rozmyslowski, K 3022 Jefferson Ave., Saginaw, Mich. 

Rutherford, Howard... 103 Marion St., Clarksville, Tenn. 

Saving, Antonio R. F. D. No. 2, Myerstown. Pa. 

*Seay, Louis R. F. D. No. 3. Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Smith, Charlie D Livingston, Tenn. 

Smith, Ottis Cravens, Tenn. 

*Smith, Raymond Allons. Tenn. 

Smith, Roy C R. F. D. "F." Terre Haute, Ind. 

Speicher, John P R. F. D. No. 1, Rockwood, Pa. 

*Spivey, Shirley B Jackson County, Tenn. 

Steigert, Henry Wagner, S. Dak. 

SiMKINS, Robert M Greenville, S. C. 

Stewart, Joseph. . .2038 Indiana Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Stone, Zie E Greentown, Ind. 

Stout, George L Nameless, Tenn. 

Strobinsky, August 316 7ih St., Crystal Falls, Mich. 

Steward, Thomas M Adams, Tenn. 

SWOPE, Laurell E R. F. D. No. 6, Lebanon, Ind. 

Templeton, John P 303 Cedar St., Dyersburg. Tenn. 

Thompson, Daniel B St. Petersburg, Fla. 

Thompson, Joseph W Boardman, N. C. 

Thrasher, Albert N Glasgow, Ky. 

Tiner, Virgil L Conway, Ark. 

Torbik, Martin M 20 Hill St., Ashley, Pa. 

Vann, Joe Kerr, N. C. 

Wahner, E. J R. F. D. No. 1, North Milwaukee, Wis. 

Ward, Joe E Clarksville, Tenn. 

Webster, Willard D R. F. D. No. 4, Wellsboro, Pa. 

Werner, William 503 Alby St., Alton, III. 

Wilson, Robert R R. R. No. I, Sciolioville, Ohio 

Winningham, William K Cravens, Tenn. 

Wooten, Jas. E.. . .300 S. Thompson St., Spartanburg, S. C. 
*Wright, Delbert Cumberland Counly. Tenn. 

Wyatt, Theodore E Clarksville, Tenn. 

Young, Clarence D Prestonville, Ky. 

Zelinsky, Stanley J 626 Paclast St., Scranton, Pa. 

ATTACHED FIRST SERGEANT 
Wilson. Wm. R 313 Main St, Clarksville, Tenn. 



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Headquarters Company, 1 I 5th Field Artillery 



When the regiment was organized as the First Ten- 
nessee Infantry at Nashville, Tenn., in June, 1916, 
the Headquarters Company was created, being made 
up of men detailed from the twelve line companies 
of the regiment. Lieut. William L. Cranberry, Ad- 
jutant of the 3d Battalion, was promoted to Captain 
and placed in command of the company, by virtue of 
being Regimental Adjutant. 

The company functioned on the border with the 
regiment and went through many changes in personnel 
because of the frequent revisions of the tables of 
organization. 

When the regiment was called out for the European 
War the Headquarters Company became a more im- 
portant unit, and its importance increased when the 
regiment was changed into artillery at Camp Sevier. 
Captain Cranberry here transferred to the Judge Ad- 
vocate Ceneral's Department and various officers com.- 
manded the company, until Capt. Wm. J. Apperson 
took it over and, perhaps from him more than any 
other officer, it received its technical training. It car- 
ried more officers on its rolls thrm any other organiza- 
tion in the regiment, all of the specialists being mem- 
bers of it. Also it included in its personnel the regi- 
mental and battalion details. 

At the front it was commanded by Capt. E. B. 
Sweeney, now Adjutant-Ceneral of Tennessee, and 
Captain Charles L. Neely. 

ROSTER OF HEADQUARTERS 
COMPANY' 

Asterisk (*) denotes served with First Tennessee Infantry 
on Mexican border. 

REGIMENTAL SERGEANTS-MAJOR 

*ScRUGCS, John L 1722 Euclid Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Cody, Edmund Park Ave., Greenville, S. C. 

BATTALION SERGEANTS-MAJORS 

Howard, Alfred M Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

*Zeivimer, Joseph P Muncie, Kans. 

McCoRMlCK, Wm. C....I50I Vinton Ave., Memphis. Tenn. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
*Ward, Herman S 175 S. Barksdale St., Memphis, Tenn. 

COLOR SERGEANTS 

»Georce, Darden Nashville, Tenn. 

Floersh, Jos. P 203 Russell St., Nashville, Tenn. 

MESS SERGEANT 
*PURD0M, Guy B Memphis, Tenn. 



SUPPLY SERGEANT 
•Hill, Robert D 304 6ih Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
*Spain, Fred C Memphis, Tenn 

SERGEANTS 

*NUNNERY, Wm. J 626 Leath Ave., Memphis, Tenn 

*Gahr, William G R. F. D. No. 1, Memphis, Tenn 

*H0DGES, James A 145 Linden Ave., Memphis. Tenn 

*M0RRISS, John H 711 Gallatin Rd., Nashville, Tenn. 

*WlLLIAMSON, Robert E Gordonsburg, Tenn. 

Richardson, Wm 1 1 7 1 7ih Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

McGavock, Winder 238 3rd Ave., S., Franklin. Tenn. 

*Heffernan, Mark F....6I9 Chelsea Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 
*CooNEY, William V 2004 Elliott Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Hail, Egbert O 2142 West End Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Chandler, Greene C Venton Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

TiNSLEY, Martin J 1 146 Kansas St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Adkins, Virgil S 1246 Breedlove St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Anderson, Olney B TuUahoma, Tenn. 

Chocklev. Ernest P 403 Ash St., Nashville, Tenn. 

MORRLS, Fenton C I 175 S. Orleans St., Memphis, Tenn. 

CORPORALS 

Dixon, Jesse D 919 Lischey Ave., Nashville, Tenn 

*Farrar, Roy D 298 W. Jackson Mnd., Memphis, Tenn 

*HoLLowAY, Leo D Myrtle, M,ss. 

Smith, Albert P Nashv.lle, Tenn. 

. Moscow, Tenn. 



Ware, Lee F. 



* Whitley, Albert J.. .2243 Chadwell Ave., Nashville, Te..... 

BoswELL. Frank M 1310 Vinton Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Craven, Will F Memphis, Tenn. 

*Fercuson, C D., Jr.. . . 1920 Cowden Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Frederick, Irl C Walnut, Miss. 

Hanley, Daniel M Buntyn. Tenn. 

*Kerr, Wiliam W 65 Carroll St., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Lenow, Arundel Bartlett. Tenn. 

Petty, Guy L E^n, Tenn. 

Ro°T, V. B 1 105 Neptune St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Martin, Guy D Greenville, Ky. 

Cameron, Harry W.. . . 1025 15th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Cooke, Wylie A R. F. D. No. 2, Sharps Chapel, Tenn. 

Hatmaker, Bert F Briceville, Tenn. 

Shields, Kenneth R 908 3rd Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Deaton, Ferry G Martin, Tenn. 

*Greenleaf, Walter A Memphis. Tenn. 

Brigham, Charles W Erin, Tenn. 

* White, Edward D 1802 Siratlon Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Williams, Frank 1995 Union Ave., .Memphis, Tenn. 

Knaffl, Chas. p.. . .217 E. Glenwood St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Rogan, Willard K Ferguson Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

*Brown, Nelis D 660 N. 4th St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Maney, Tom H 1909 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn. 

*Giddens, Roy E Memphis, Tenn. 

*EvANs, Joseph S Humboldt, Tenn. 

Gardner, Mayger L 652 N. 3rd St., Memphis, Tenn. 







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Farver, Emery C Galesburg, 111. 

DuNAVAN, Walter A Address Unknown 

Douglas, William H.. . .805 18ih Ave., S. Nashville, Tenn. 

Gomez, Thomas Drumrighi, Okla. 

Schmaltz, Elmer E Royal Centre, Ind. 

*Wessell, Arthur L Memphis, Tenn. 

COOKS 

Andrews, Arthur P Whiteville, Tenn. 

*Fessey, MlMMs G Palmyra, Tenn. 

*ScHULLy, Frank A 919 Paydras Sl, New Orleans, La. 

Wilson, Lee H Commerce St., Clarksville, Tenn. 

MECHANICS 

Sanford, William P Madison, Tenn. 

Helton, Ernest K Liberty Hill, Tenn. 

HORSESHOERS 

Hall, Martin L R. F. D. No. I. Campbell, N. C. 

HiLLIs, Titus E R. F. D. No. 6, McMinnville, Tenn. 

SADDLER 
Adams, Archie E Celina. Tenn. 

BUGLERS 

*HECiiLE, Ferdinand. .. 1442 Harbert Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Page, Harry G 211 4th St., Clarksville, Tenn. 

*Whitley, Albert B Carters Creek, Tenn. 

BAND LEADER 
♦Brodsky, Joseph C Fulton, Ky. 

ASSISTANT BAND LEADER 
*Bernard, Alcele J Parkin, Ark. 

SERGEANT BUGLER 

*WlLLIS, Guy Augusta, Ark. 

BAND SERGEANTS 

HoLLOWAY, BoYD W Clem, Ga. 

Petrone, Chas 347 E. 10»th St., New York City 

BAND CORPORALS 

*Cra\vford, James N 1456 Court Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

*Darden, Walter B 219 Shelby Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Anderle, Thos. J 1319 Komensky Ave., Chicago, III. 

*Dudley, William W Memphis, Tenn. 

MUSICIANS, FIRST CLASS 

Adams, William A Address Unknown 

Mori, Guido 165 Willow St., Yonkers, N. Y. 

MUSICIANS, SECOND CLASS 

Chapman, Fred M 213 Illinois Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Freeman, Martin 181 Market Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Jones, Elmer B 4509 Elkins Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Wood, George C 1607 Foster Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

MUSICIANS, THIRD CLASS 

*Adams, Nelson B Franklin, Tenn. 

BouzZA, John J Tyndall, S. D. 

CozzETTO, Joe Cincinnati, Ohio 

Decicco, Modestino. . .2133 Murray Hill, Cleveland, Ohio 

*Lenox, Wayne H State Line, Fulton, Ky. 

*LovELL, Marion Columbia, Tenn. 

Luther, Ernest M 717 Leath St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Mahard, George B Lawton, Mich. 

MazZAFERRO, Joe Greensburg, Pa. 



Moore, Thos. O 325 Carroll Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

*PuRE, Harry 78 Adams Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

White, Frank W Lebanon, Tenn. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Alston, Nat J Henning, Tenn. 

Anderle, Thomas J 1319 Komensky Ave., Chicago, III. 

Andrews, David Whiteville, Tenn. 

Barton, Wm H 2093 Union Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Becherer, Paul W Pfeiffer Ave., Belleville, III. 

*Blackburn, Birton D Santa Fe, Tenn. 

Bush, Oscar D Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. 

Cabbage, Claudius H.. .R. F. D. No. 1, Liberty Hill, Tenn. 

Cantrell, Phillip A Whiles Creek, Tenn. 

Garden, Warner L Clinton, Tenn 

Climer, Wm. V R. F. D. No. 2, Bonaqua, Tenn. 

Crenshaw, Maurice Jackson, Tenn. 

^Edwards. Reams A Clarksville, Tenn. 

*FlSHER, Lucius B 745 Unon Ave., Memphis. Tenn. 

Flori, Joseph A 4lh and Belle St., Alton, III. 

Greer, Clint C LobeKille, Tenn. 

Hicks, Jessie L Paris, Tenn. 

Kelton, Robert H.. .610 N. Maple St., Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

Land, John T Arlington, Tenn. 

Moore, Ellis E Whiteville, Tenn. 

McKinnie, John R Jackson, Tenn. 

*Roach, William S Collierville, Tenn. 

*RoGERS, SWEP Dyersburg, Tenn. 

Roller, John H R. F. D. No. 2, Antioch, Tenn. 

St. Perrie, Joseph R Address Unknown 

Ward, Beecher 519 N. Market St., Paris, Tenn. 

WiCGS, Hal E 1952 Court St., Memphis, Tenn. 

*Wiggins. Harry T 1039 Valentine St., Memphis, Tenn. 

PRIVATES 

Abramson, Carl A 2443 S. 20th St.. Omaha, Neb. 

Atkinson, Ellis O R. F. D. No. 2, Fulton, Ky. 

Baber, John S 906 Main St., Nashville. Tenn. 

Bailey, Samuel P Address Unknown 

Blackburn, Chas B....I686 Nelson Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Bostian, William Landis, N. C. 

Bussey, Mack D 917 W. 6th Sl, Joplin, Mo. 

Caton, James E R. F. D. No. 1, Grass Creek, Ind. 

Cline, Marion B R. F. D. No. 26, Whitestown, Ind. 

Collins, Russell 1 164 Franklin Ave., Columbus, O. 

Conn, Fred E Adairville, Ky. 

Crowder, Robert P .Trimble, Tenn. 

Davis, Walter L 362 Vance Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Dodd, Mack R. F. D. No. 2, Leoma, Tenn. 

Duke, Earl J 1215 Central Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Durham, Claude E Bodingham, Tenn. 

ErICSON, Axel L Address Unknown 

Fann, William A R. F. D. No. 3. Antioch, Tenn. 

Forman, Moses Summer, Miss. 

*Gibson, Henry E 859 Madison Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Goodyear, Chester M., Jr Greenville, S. C. 

Helm, William H Hati, Mo. 

Henry, Clarence Alwood, III. 

Heward, Edwin B Star City, Ind. 

HlxON, Harley S R. F. D. No. 6, Logansport, Ind. 




In the Argonne 

(1) German dug-oul used by 115th F. A. near Monttaucon. (2) Headquarters of 37th Division at Recicourt. (3) The ruins of Avocourl. 
(4) The church at Montfaucon. (5) German plane brought down near ll5lh F. A.'s battery positions. (6) The town of Ivoiry. (7) Effect 
of fire by 115th F. A. in Cierges. (8) Headquarters 55th F. A. Brigale at Recicourt. 



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Hoke, James R. F. D. No. 3, Carbon, Ind. 

Holland, Herbert V Poplar Si., Paris, Tenn. 

IVEY, OthA W R. F. D. No. 7, Dandrldge, Tenn. 

James, Charles E Address Unknown 

Johnson, Arthur L Chariton, Iowa 

Johnson, Foslin N R, F. D. No. I, Gylondon, Minn. 

*JoNES, Alex Columbia, Tenn. 

Jones, Herman Address Unknown 

Jones, Roy R R. F. D. No. I, Bristol. Tenn. 

KiNZER, Charles P Wilbw St.. Logansport, Ind. 

Knicht, Harvie W Red Boiling Springs, Tenn. 

Lay, SaIMP Newcomb. Tenn. 

Layman, John 503 S. Courtland, Kokomo, Ind. 

McDonald, Richard H Jackson, Tenn. 

Miller, Cart H Erwin, Tenn. 

Moore, Benjamin F Whiteville, Tenn. 

Morris, Jim B Cragford, Ala. 

Nicholson, Sidney P Hickory Point, Tenn. 

Orchard, Earl Summerville, Mo. 

Hofften, Joseph 1232 S. 6th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Kepler, Harry G 432 Erie Ave., Renovo. Pa. 

Overmyer, Leroy R. F. D. No. I, Leitersford. Ind. 

*Parker, Freedom M LaFayette, Tenn. 

Pentecost, Quitman Palmsville, Tenn. 

Peters, Alonza Cooper, N. C. 

*Petty, Herbert E 333 E. Blvd., Peru, Ind. 

QuiNN, Tharon R R. F. D. No. 1, Beulahville, N. C. 

Register, Harmon A New Brunswick, N. J. 

RiDDICK, DewiTT Friendship, Tenn. 

*Rodgers. Harvey J Memphis, Tenn. 

Rohrbaugh, Andrew Napoleon, Henry 

Russell, Claude Boomer, N. C. 

Scott, Ruie E R. F. D. No. 1, Delphi, Ind. 

Sears, Charles Kewanna, Ind. 

Smith, James A Delta, Ala. 

Smith, Joseph E Howell, Tenn. 

*Spr.acgins, Howard B Humboldt. Tenn. 

Stacgs, Wilton B Columbia, Tenn. 

Stewart, John C 416 W. Haven St., Kokomo, Ind. 

Tindol, Willie E R. F. D. No. 3, Newbrockton. Ala. 

Tucker, Wm M R. F. D. No. 3, Fayetteville, Tenn. 

Williams, David H R. F. D. No. 3, West Point, Ca. 

Williamson, Ernest A. ...600 Main St., Greenville. Tenn. 

Yates, Malcolm M Lamar, Ala. 

Young, Benjamin F Roanoke, Ala. 

Cecil, Dennie F 282 Crossell St., Memphis, Tenn. 

CoBURN, Herman J 124 N. Court St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Crockett, West B Amguilla, Miss. 

Gaines, Jamie P Beunavista, Ga. 

ft tei iBi 

ROSTER OF ORDNANCE DETACHMENT 

ORDNANCE SERGEANTS 

Shea, James L Memphis, Tenn. 

*Saddler. John L Pennsylvania Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

East, William L 748 Argyle Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

SERGEANTS 

Rice, A. J.. . .Kirkman and Thornton A e., Nashville, Tenn. 

*Whitus, Walter Columbia, Tenn. 



King, Jos. B 709 Woodland St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Mellow, Spencer R 107 Crescent Ave., Peoria, III. 

CORPORALS 

Davenport. Virgil G 217 Looney Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

McConnell, Tate M....849 Vance Ave.. Memphis, Tenn. 

WiLLETS, Blaine 923 S. West St., Indianapolis. Ind. 

Haumschilt, Charles P Binghamplon. Tenn. 

Harrington, Charles E Sellyville. Ind. 

Schmidt, Arthur W 133 French St., Buffalo, N. Y. 

Ferry, Cadwalder 1626 Latimer St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Norwood, William P Memphis, Tenn. 

Hansen, Hans G Mt. Olive. 111. 

McReynolds. H. N 619 W. Sycamore Sl, Kokomo, Ind. 

Fisher, Walter L R. F. D. No. 4, Bedford, Ind. 

PRIVATE 
Martin, Lester L 836 Argyle Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

>» Bg - te^ 

ROSTER OF REGIMENTAL INFIRMARY 

SERGEANT. FIRST CLASS 
Mitchum, Clifford R 1021 Raynor Sl, Memphis, Tenn. 

SERGEANTS 

*HUBBARD, Herman R Forest Depot, Va. 

Nance, Edmund B 603 Valliant Ave., Greenville, Miss. 

*Mabry, Ozier a Sanatoga, Miss. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Abernathy, Thomas E Pulaski, Tenn. 

Anderson, Frank 1006 Spain Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Bruce, Robert L Pulaski, Tenn. 

*Crawford, S. L 2091 E. Trimble Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Farley, Forrest R Summerville, Tenn. 

*FousT, Frank D 1003 Montrose Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Greer, Chas D. M.. . . 1027 Peabody Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Heinemann, Jos. T 1021 Jackson Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Turner, Everett C 2040 Elzey Ave.. Memphis. Tenn. 

PRIVATES 

Armold, Raymond U Kenlland, Ind. 

Ashmer, I. W 1141 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Baldwin, Marvin A Due West, S. C. 

Biggs, Albert T East Moreland, Memphis, Tenn. 

Edwards, Lucius E Gunnison, Miss. 

*Gannon, John P 307 Rose Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

GoRNALL, Victor F Fowler, Ind. 

IncalLS, Frank L 324 N. Bellvue, Memphis. Tenn. 

Mabry, James H 354 N. Garland, Memphis. Tenn. 

Nichols, William A Elkmont, Ala. 

*Pantell. Arthur D 1506 Russell St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Peeler, William C Rockwell, N. C. 

*Phillips, Louis F Hanover Place, Memphis, Tenn. 

PuRYEAR, Henry M Pulaski. Tenn. 

Raper. Henry A Wilson. N. C. 

Rosier, David H Newcombe, Tenn. 

Rose, David Columbia, S. C. 

SowELL, Rufus L Chesterfield, S. C. 

Taylor, Allen S Dyersburg, Tenn. 

Trout, Robert C Forrest City, N. C. 



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Supply Company, 1 1 5th Field Artillery 



The Supply Company was organized at Nashville, 
Tenn., in 1916, just after the regiment was organ- 
ized for service on the Mexican border, being made 
up of men detailed from the line companies. Lieut. 
Ray C. Reeves was commissioned Captain and given 
command, with Lieut. Harry B. Clemons the only 
other officer. 

The personnel of the company was greatly increased 
when the regiment was changed into artillery, and 
Reg. Supply Sergeant Ernest G. Hartley was pro- 
moted to 2d Lieut, and assigned to the company. 
The company was kept busy drawing equipment, is- 
suing to the batteries, and promptly taking it up and 
turing it in again, as the tables of organization were 
changed regularly every day, it seemed, and frequently 
oftener. 

In France horses were issued and the company was 
horse-drawn until after the armistice, when it was 
given charge of all of the motor equipment of the 
regiment and additional officers were assigned. Cap- 
tain Reeves commanded the company from its organi- 
zation until in December, 1918, when he was trans- 
ferred and Capt. Charles L. Neely was transferred 
from headquarters company to the Supply Company, 
remaining in that position until the company was mus- 
tered out after returning to the United States. 

ROSTER OF SUPPLY COMPANY 
1 1 5th Field Artillery 

Asterisk (*) denotes served with First Tennessee Infantry 
on Mexican border. 

REGIMENTAL SUPPLY SERGEANTS 

Merritt, Henry C 533 Madison St., Clarksville, Tenn. 

ToLLIVER, Benton M Lebanon, Tenn. 

WymeR. KarlL Memphis, Tenn. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
*Leibundgut, O. F 1805 8th Ave., N. Nashville, Tenn. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Gorman, Harrison F Memphis, Tenn. 

SERGEANTS 

Briles, Howard H 708 7lh A\e.. S., Nashville, Tenn. 

*BUNN, Jesse L Dyersburg. Tenn. 

CORPORALS 
Anderson, Herbert O.... 2-^09 S. 16th St., Omaha, Neb. 

*Baker, Joseph H 550 N. 3rd St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Bean, Henry M 1608 Walnut St., Jacksonville, Fla. 

Rutherford, Frank G...103 Marion St., Clarksville, Tenn. 



CHIEF MECHANIC 
Flanican, John L 780 Leath St., Memphis, Tenn. 

MECHANICS 

Auger, Francis X 35 Blake St., Lewislon, Me. 

Bass, Bedford C Route No. 4, Walertown, Tenn. 

*Brown, John S Crawford, Tenn. 

*Chilton, Taylor Lewisburg, Tenn. 

COOKS 
Browne, Leslie A.. . .Route 1, Box 45, Goodlettsville, Tenn. 

Harris, Eugene E 1204 Sigler St, Nashville, Tenn. 

Harris, Samuel T Morristown, Tenn. 

Dunham, Grover C 205 E. Main St., Ardmore, Okla. 

Nelson, O. P 298 S. Waldran Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Warren, Wm. P 17 McEwen St., Nashville, Tenn. 

WAGONEF5S 

AcuFF, James E Mount Airy, Tenn. 

Alderman, Jepp. C Memphis, Tenn. 

Ball, Jess Mount Airy, N. C. 

Baker, Jerome W 550 N. 3rd St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Bowers, Harley F 1923 Stale St., Huntington, Ind. 

*Branch, Willie T 805 W. 4lh Ave., Pine Bluff, Ark. 

Buchanan, Edward Morristown, Tenn. 

Bunch, Simon Route No. 1, Washburn, Tenn. 

*Campbell, Norton, R 4405 Park Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Collins, Bedford L Medon, Tenn. 

Conway, Patrick L Leoma Tenn. 

Cravens, Logan B Cookplace, Tenn. 

Cree, Carl D 324 Mammouth Rd., Manchester, N. H. 

*Crews, Clyde Mayfield, Ky. 

Cronk, Miles M Haynesville, Me. 

Day, Harvey B Route No. I, Cumberland Gap, Tenn. 

DoBBS, Joseph E Tultle, Okla. 

*Eatherly, Joe M White Bluff, Tenn. 

Fitzgerald. Joseph Memphis, Tenn. 

Floyd, Joe P Durant, Okla. 

Greiner, Henry 731 I St., Lancaster, Pa. 

Grogan, Joseph Address Unknown 

Hall, Albert Tinsley, Tenn. 

Hammer, Elmer H 336 5th St., Bristol, Tenn. 

Hardin, Thomas G South Pittsburg, Tenn. 

*HatLEY, Jay B Address Unknown 

Hawkins, Royce Woodlawn, Tenn. 

*Hay, William E Lewisburg, Tenn. 

HiLEMAN, Silas T R. F. D. No. 1, Moresburg, Tenn. 

Justus, Willie E R. F. D. No. 2, Leoma, Tenn. 

KIaufman, Lester J Benfer, Pa. 

Kenney, George A R. F. D. No. 2, Bailey, Tenn. 

Kenton, FIidley W R. F. D. No. 5, Ml. Juliet, Tenn. 

KoHN, Earl F 215 West F St., Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Kresin, Charles J 815 E. Dele an Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 

Light, Carl Churchill, Tenn. 

Lowe, Benton E., Ml. Juliet, Tenn. 

McCarthy, Calvin 1323 Derry St., Harrisburg, Pa. 



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McKiNNEV, Burnett Cosby, Tenn. 

Mark, Samuel T 667 Chain St., Montgomery, Tenn. 

Miller, Martin E 103 S. 6;h Ave., Coniesvllle, Pa. 

Moore, William G Ethridge, Tenn. 

*Petty, Roy B 1708!/'2 Fla. Ave., Tampa, Fla. 

Pfeiffer, Forest M Bremen, Ind. 

*Redmond, William S Nashville, Tenn. 

*Reeves. William E Dukedom, Tenn. 

*Sawvers, Clarence C Brentwood, Tenn. 

*Shepherd, James H Caney Springs, Tenn. 

Seikerman, Clemons. . . .4717 Ashland Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 

Stewart, Arthur R. F. D. No. 3, Woodbury, Tenn. 

Thomas, Clarence L Leoma, Tenn. 

Tucker, Tandy W R. F. D. No. 2, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Tune, George R R. F. D. No. 1, Troy, Tenn. 

*WilleF0RD, William T Livingston, Tenn. 

Williams, Ancil R Savannah, Tenn. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

Beckett, Henry F R. F. D. No. 3, Jonesboro, Tenn. 

Cowan, Walter L 926 Lorence St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Harmon, Alfred B Dunlap, Tenn. 

ICaufskv, William Ntw York City, N. Y. 

Lawson, Benjamin R Walkerville, Hi 

Medlin, William O West Union, S. C. 

*Morgan, James F Columbia, Tenn. 

Reed, Charlie Ready ville, Tenn. 

Sadler, Chesterleich R Fairfield, Tenn. 

Tapalman, George Address Unknown 

Weidow, Herbert 36 Sandborn St., Wilkesbarre Pa. 

Welling, Max H Oakland, Md. 

PRIVATES 

Barbel, James M Harrisburg, N. C. 

Barnes, Snodie A Taylor, S. C 

Bolton, Charles 71 McMagee St., Allegheny, Pa. 

BosNY, Michael McLester Ave., Mingo Junction, Ohio 



*Bradley, Cleveland Poplar Grove, Tenn. 

Brow, William J Pine St., Swanton, Vl. 

Brown, John S Crawford, Tenn. 

Caldwell, Fred C 559 S. Columbia St., Frankfort, Ind. 

Durbin, Pearl M Brownstown, 111. 

Eddincer, Lewis 2301-E Somerset St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Falcinelli, August J 55 Russell St., Plymouth, Mass. 

Farmer, Herman Ridgetop, Tenn. 

Frahner, Wm., Jr 2807-E Erald St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Elliott, Eugene 213 3rd Ave., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Garrett, David W R. F. D. No. 1, Central, S. C. 

Goggans, Rexford L Ingonar, Miss. 

Grace, James J 3035 Belgrade St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Hodgens, Miles Savana, Okla. 

King, Herbert M Henderson St., Harris, Ky. 

Lamb, Harrison L Tulsa, Okla. 

Lytle, John R. F. D. No. 1 , Shamokin, Pa 

Mahnert, Harry E 1810 Lowrie St., Allegheny, Pa. 

Matthes, George Mt. Auburn, 111. 

McHale, James W Claysville, Ohio 

Pate, William L Artesia, N. Mex. 

Riley, Thomas R. F. D. No. 1, Grawn, Mich. 

Roller, William C Weldon, Ark. 

SafFORD, Thurman 828 S. 35th St., Louisville, K.y. 

Scott, Archie G Milan, Pa. 

'Sensing, George C Charlotte, Tenn. 

Sharpless, James W Sandyridge Center, Pa. 

Sperla, John Marine, Pa. 

SteRYEOS, James 336 E. Weidman St., Lebanon. Pa. 

Triplette, Cr.4TTIE R. F. D. No. 2, Boomer, N. C. 

Walton, Harold R Sherman, N. Y. 

Wargo, John Dixie, Pa. 

Whitaker, Jas. a 90S Chelsea Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

ATTACHED SERGEANT 
*Cox, Neel E 1 108 Woodland St.. Nashville, Tenn. 







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One of the 115th F. A.'s Howitzers 
A Drawing by Carl M. Duke of Nashville 



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The Fire Test at Fort Sill, Oklahoma 

(I) Firing on ihe range. (2) Adminislration Building, School of Fire. (3) Observing fire. (4) A cold day 
range. (5) Interior of Barracks. (6) View of the School Buildings. 



Headquarters 1 1 5th Field Artillery, 
A. E. F., France 
September 12, 1918, 1:10 a.m. 
SECRET, 
To Baiialion Commanders: 

"H" hour is 5 :00 o'clock this morning. Fire will 
begin as per schedule previously furnished you. 

Wm. J. Bacon. Lkut.-Col, Il5lh F. A. 
Si Si r-i 
General Headquarters American 
Expeditionary Forces 
December 1, 1918 
SPECIAL ORDERS No. 335 
Extract 
33. The officers named below are relieved from 
duty with the organizations set opposite their names 
and will proceed to A. P. O. 71 4, reporting upon ar- 
rival to the Commandant, Army Schools, on Decem- 
ber 8, 1918, for the purpose of taking the course of 
instructions at Center of Artillery Studies. 

Each of the General Officers named will be accom- 
panied on this duty by a field officer of his brigade 
staff. In the case of Commanders of Infantry Bri- 



Orders 

gades these field officers may be selected from regi- 
ments if the detail of Brigade Adjutants is not deemed 
advisable. The names of the field officers selected 
will be transmitted without delay to the Assistant 
Chief of Staff, G-5, these Headquarters. Aides will 
not accompany General Officers on this duty. 

Brigadier-General Andrew Moses, 1 56th Brigade. 

Brigadier-General Daniel F. Craig, 157th Brigade. 

Brigadier-General Beverly F. Browne, 166th 
Brigade. 

Brigadier-General M. B. Stewart, 88th Division. 

Brigadier-General P. E. Pierce, 27th Division. 

Brigadier-General H. H. Barnum, 92d Division. 

Colonel Charles M. Bundel, 159th Brigade. 

Colonel Nelson E. Margretts, 3 1 7th Field Ar- 
tillery. 

Colonel Thomas W. Hollyday, 125th Field Ar- 
tillery. 

Colonel Philip H. Worcester, 148th Field Ar- 
tillery. 

Colonel Harrison Hall, 8th Field Artillery. 

Colonel Charles M. Bunker, 308th Field Artillery. 

Colonel Harry S. Berry. 1 I 5th Field Artillery. 



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Five-Ton Tractor 

One of the Tractors of the Il5lh F. A. Picture made at 

Gojseldang, Luxemburg, by Wm. R. Browder of Battery C, 

115th F. A. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Roger S. Panott, 3 1 8th Field 
Artillery. 

Lieutenant-Colonel William McCleave, 304th 
Field Artillery. 

The travel directed is necessary in the military 
service. 

By command of General Pershing: 

James W. McAndrew, 

Chief of Staff. 
Official: 

Robert C. Davis, 

Adjutant-General. 

ft to to 

Headquarters 1 1 5th Filed Artillery 

August 31, 1918 

SECRET 

Memorandum 

To all Battalion and Batter]} Commanders: 

1 . Owing to the probability of receiving orders to 
occupy the battery positions only a few hours before 
having to open lire without previous adjustment, it will 
be necessary to accurately establish orienting lines an 
exact co-ordiate of directing pieces. Select base point 
for each battery and make sufficient preparation to lay 
the battery on same without delay. 

2. At positions where shelter or cover for personnel 
is not already provided, it will be necessary to pre- 
pare trenches near the guns, three-fourths (%) meters 
wide, two (2) meters deep and of sufficient length to 



accommodate the gun squad. This is to be used in 
case of heavy bombardment by the enemy. Protec- 
tion should be prepared for telephonist and Battery 
Commander. 

3. Camouflage material will be sent to positions 
tonight accompanied by a non-commissioned officer of 
the Camouflage Section, and all work done during the 
nights must be carefully camouflaged during the day. 

4. The reconnaissance by Battalion and Battery 
Commanders apparently has not progressed sufficiently, 
and reports turned into these headquarters are in many 
respects unsatisfactory. No report has been received 
from the 2d Battalion. 

5. It is imperative that reconnaissance should be 
finished at once, and all preparations made for occu- 
pation of positions assigned ; all work done, the posi- 
tion of each gun in each battery being established by 
a stake, the location of which is accurately known, so 
that fire may be opened within a few minutes after 
the occupation of the positions. Such occupation will 
probably be made at night, and aiming lights should be 
prepared so that the guns may be laid with accuracy 
on the Lambert North, and fire transferred from that 
as a basic deflection to any point on the map in the 
sector to be assigned, without delay and with accuracy. 
Working parties should be sent out each night, and 
left at the battery positions under strict discipline and 
concealment during the day, if necessary, so that there 
may be no delay in the complete preparation of the 
positions. 

6. Sentries should be posted at once at all dug- 
outs and command posts that the Battery or Battalion 
Commanders anticipate using; otherwise, such dugouts 
may be taken over by other organizations. 

7. Careful reconnaissance should be made by Bat- 
tery Commanders in person, and also by at least two 
other officers of each battery, from the echelon or 
present battery position to that assigned, and to be 
hereafter occupied, especial attention being paid to 
that part of the route between the main road and the 
battery position itself. 

8. Battery and Battalion Command Posts must be 
immediately selected, and these headquarters notified 
of the exact location of the same. 

9. Telephone wires must be immediately laid by 
the battery from its position to the Battalion C. P., 
and by the Battalions C. P. to the Regimental C. P., 
which is located in the village of Bernecourt. The 



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:vrf^'--''Y r^^x'''"^ «*^ ■*'■• 












In the Troyon Sector 

(I) Gun of IHth F. A. in camouflage position. (2) Harassing the Hun. (3) German truck captured by 114th F. A. 
at Montfaucon. (4) The ruined church at Les Eparges. (5) On the march into Germany. (6) "Fire!" 



location of the Regimental C. P. can be ascertained 
from the Town Major in this place. Private Good- 
year, Hq. Co., I 15th F. A., is posted as a sentry at 
the Regimental C. P., and will give all information 
desired. The Regimental Telephone Officer will have 
general supervision of all telephone lines, and the 
establishing of the same. Two lines by separate routes 
must be established from each Battery C. P. to the 
Battalion C. P., and from each Battalion C. P. to 
the Regimental C. P. 

10. Trenches must be dug for positions of 2d and 
3d Battalions, as set out in previous memorandum of 
this date. 

1 1 . Radio stations will be established in the vicinity 
of each Battalion C. P. These stations may prove 
of the utmost importance, as they may be the only 
method of communication after an engagement is 
begun. 

12. Visual liaisons will be established wherever 



practicable — reconnaissance will be made, and report 
submitted as to this. 

1 3. The exact and complete co-ordinates of all 
battery positions must be determined, and submitted to 
these headquarters. 

1 4. Careful thought will be given to the exact com- 
position of the gun squads of the firing battery, and of 
battery and battalion details. Also of the number of 
horses, carriages, vehicles, etc., that will be required 
in moving into and occupying the battery positions. 
Careful attention will also be given to food and wa- 
ter supplies for the batteries; location of battery 
kitchens; routes by which food and water will be 
brought up. Also to gas and camouflage discipline; 
gas sentinels and piotective measures against gas at- 
tack; paths to be used should be wired and all travel 
about the battery confined to such paths. Attention will 
also be given to the establishment of necessary latrines, 
and proper sanitation about the battery positions in the 
dugouts, etc. 



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15. Projectiles stored in the vicinity of the bat- 
tery positions will be placed in piles not to exceed I 
for O.A., and not to exceed 25 for F.A. shells, laid 
upon the side and in not more than three layers deep. 
Such piles to be at least ten meters apart, and care- 
fully camouflaged with branches or other material. 
All such piles shall contain only projectiles of the same 
kind and weight. 

1 6. The powder will be stored in dugouts where 
available, or in pockets or niches dug in a hillside. 
Not more than four cases will be stored in any one 
place. No powder cases will rest upon the ground, 
but will be placed upon small timbers to protect them 
from dampness. Where powder recesses are dug they 
will be so constructed that no part of the powder case 
will project above the surface of the ground, and 
will be carefully covered with corrugated iron, or some 
other material, to protect them from moisture. Only 
powder of the same lot will be stored in any one 
place. 

1 7. Fuzes will be similarly stored in quantities of 
not more than 200 to 300, protected from moisture, 
and only fuzes of the same kind in any one niche. 

I 8. Primers will be separately and similarly stored. 

19. At each battery position proper precautions will 
be taken against aircraft; proper and careful lookout 
maintained, and the strictest compliance with all exist- 
ing orders on the subject had. Machine gunners must 
not lire on any aircraft unless it is known to be a hos- 
tile plane, and is flying at a height less than 600 
meters. 

20. All battery officers will be held strictly ac- 
countable that there is no promiscuous and needless 
firing of machine guns, rifles or pistols at aeroplanes. 

21. Battery Commanders will make to their Bat- 
talion Commanders a daily detailed report of progress 
of work on the battery positions. Battalion Comman- 
ders will make similar daily icports to these head- 
quarters. 

22. There is the necessity for the utmost haste in 
the preparation of these positions, and the work will 
be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. 

By order of Lieut. -Colonel Bacon: 

Wm. J. Apperson, 
Caplain ! 15th F. A., Adjutant. 



American Expeditionary Forces 
office of 
the commander-in-chief 
To the Departing Officers of the A. E. F. : 

After honorably serving your country in a great 
war, you are about to embark for the homeland. Re- 
member that the bearing of their officers is reflected 
in the behavior and discipline of the men you are com- 
manding homeward bound. I most sincerely trust 
that no single act may occur to stain the splendid rec- 
ord won by our troops in Europe. My confidence 
and best wishes follow you and them as you cross the 
sea and in your future service in the army or elsewhere. 

John J. Pershing. 

* te fc 

Headquarters 115th Field Artillery, 

A. E. F., France 

September 12, 1918, 9:15 a.m. 

MEMORANDUM 
C. O. Echelon 
Send forward at once firing batteries complete of 
I st and 2d Battalions. Guides will meet them at 
Bernecourt. Kitchens, rations and water carts, rations, 
etc., will be included. Send senior battery officer 
ahead to these headquarters so that instructions may 
be issued to him. 

All caissons and available wagons will be brought 
loaded with ammunition. But do not delay the move- 
ment for this. 

By order of Lieut. -Col. Bacon: 

Wm. J. Apperson, 
Captain 1 15th F. A., Adjutant. 

to te fc 

Headquarters I 15th Field Artillery 
Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. 
April 12, 1919 
Memorandum 
Upon this occasion of our demobilization the Regi- 
mental Commander takes this means of saying fare- 
well to the officers and men of the I I 5th Field Ar- 
lery. You have fought the battles of the nation with 
supreme courage, devotion to duty, intense loyalty and 
with a determination to win, and these qualities, which 
have been indelibly impressed upon your character, 
and which won the victory at .St. Mihiel, in the Ar- 
gonne, and in the Woevre, are the same qualities that 
will win for jou the battles of private life. 



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When you remove your uniform do not divest your- 
self of these quahties also, for they are the best assets 
you possess. Retam and nurture these qualities, for 
by them you will be able to fulfill your obligations as 
an American citizen as creditably as you have per- 
formed your duties as an American soldier. 

By the sacrifices that you have made and by the 
honest and faithful service that you have rendered, 
you occupy a favored place m the hearts of a grateful 
people. This is something of which no one can de- 
prive you, although you may forfeit it by some act 
of your own. You leave the military service with 
more strength of body, with more alertness of mind, 
and with more respect for law, than you had when 
you entered the army. You represent an investment 
that the nation had made in its young manhood, and 
our people have reason to expect much of you in years 
to come. 

The American people occupy today a very for- 
tunate position in the family of nations. The moral, 
physical and economic strength of our nation surpasses 
that of any other nation in the world. The best man- 
hood of all the other great nations lies buried on the 
battlefield, while our young manhood, with the excep- 
tion of 100,000 heroes who inade the supreme sac- 
rifice, was spared. 

Our nation is in position to progress by leaps and 
bounds, while other nations must busy themselves for 
years to come with reconstruction work only. No na- 
tion ever faced such opportunities as does our nation 
today, and never in the history of the world were the 
obligations and responsibilities of the individual to the 
State as great as they are today. Therefore. I am urg- 
ing you to prepare yourselves to meet these obligations 
and opportunities, which will bring benefits and reflect 
credit both upon yourselves and upon the nation. 

In conclusion, I thank you again for the loyalty that 
you have shown me as your Regimental Commander, 
for the patience and courage v.-ith which you have 
borne hardships and danger, for the efficiency that 
you have developed in the performance of your duties, 
and for the lughest qualities of manhood that you have 
always manifested. My parting words are "Good 
Luck" and "God Bless You." 

Harry S. Berry. 
Colonel I I5the Field Artillery. 







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Headquarters 115th Field Artillery 

American Expeditionary Force 

December 7. 1918 

GENERAL ORDERS No. 9 

The impossibility of the renewal of hostilities now 
being apparent, and the end of the war being an as- 
sured fact, the Regimental Commander desires to ex- 
press his thanks and apprecialion to the officers and 
men of the I I 5lh Field Artillery for their energy, 
efficiency, patriotism and loyalty, which characterized 
their services. The difficulty and discouragement which 
the regiment experienced in the early periods of its 
training are still too fresh in the minds of everyone 
to be enumerated herein ; horse-drawn without horses, 
motorized without motors, and drilled on phantom 
guns, nothing but the strongest determination and most 
soldierly spirit could have maintained interest and up- 
held discipline during this period of training. 

Upon arrival on the firing line the regiment has 
fulfilled its every mission, and has responded to every 
call made upon it in such manner as to elicit com- 
mendation, not only from our own Brigade Comman- 



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Landing at Charleston Terminals 

Men of the 115th Field Artillery and !05th Ammunition Train Debarking to Entrain for Camp Jackson 

after Eleven Months' Service Overseas 



ders, but from the Commanding Officers of other 
tactical units with which we were co-operating. Sel- 
dom in the history of warfare has any regiment been 
taken from the training area and hurled immediately 
into the firing line, without any battle experience, 
against an enemy so trained, disciplined and experi- 
enced as the German Army ; but the fact that the 
regiment had never been on the firing line before was 
not apparent, as all ranks conducted themselves with 
the steadiness and courage of veterans. 

Having completed our duty on the battle line and 
having lived up to the best traditions of American mili- 
tary history, we can look with pride upon our achieve- 
ments of the past. 

Now, turn to the future. We are about to enter 
the territory of our former enemies, where it is neces- 
sary for the honor of the American nation, that every 
soldier conduct himself in the most exemplary man- 
ner. The civilian population of the occupied terri- 



tory must be treated with the greatest courtesy, and 
each soldier should remember that any overt act which 
he may commit, reflects not only upon himself, but 
upon one hundred million other Americans, who look 
upon the American soldier as a champion of liberty 
and civilization. We have won the respect of every 
thinking citizen in our nation, and we cannot afford 
to permit any individual to encroach on that respect 
by any thoughtless or vicious act. 

The undersigned is leaving the regiment for a period 
of detached service of indefinite duration, and his last 
request to the officers and men of the 1 15th Field 
Artillery is to so conduct themselves in the perform- 
ance of their coming duties that the glorious record 
which the regiment has made will not be tarnished 
through thoughtlessness or misconduct. We must show 
our enemies that the American soldier respects and 
defends all laws, civil and international, and that he 
is not moved by the brutal impulses which prompted 



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the enemy soldiers to commit their heinous crimes. 
Keep uppermost in your minds the three words, "Duty, 
Honor and Country." 

Harry S. Berry, 
Colonel, 1 15th Field Arliller};. 
te da iri 

Headquarters,, 55th Field Artillery 

Brigade, A. E. F., France 

August 16, 1918 

1. In acordance with authority of G. H. Q., A. 
E. F., July 13, 1918, the following officers of the 
55th Brigade, Field Artillery, are relieved from as- 
signment to their present organization and from fur- 
ther duty with the American Expeditionary Forces, 
and will proceed to Base Section No. 3, for trans- 
portation to the United States, where, upon arrival, 
they will report in person to the Commanding General, 
port of embarkation, as having been returned in com- 
pliance with War Department Cable No. I 706, dated 
July 12, 1918, for assignment to new divisions: 

Captain Felix T. Lanier, 1 15th Field Artillery. 

Captain Edward J. McCormack, 1 1 4th Field 
Artillery. 

1st Lieut. Ben A. Mason, 1 15th Field Artillery. 

1st Lieut. Frank W. Bailey, 1 15th Field Artillery. 

1 St Lieut. Willard A. Doerr, 1 1 5th Field Artillery. 

1st Lieut. Daniel S. Welling, 1 1 5th Field Artillery. 

1st Lieut. Walter S. Trumbull, I 15th Field Ar- 
tillery. 

1st Lieut. John W. Gaines, Jr., I Nth Field Ar- 
tillery. 

1st Lieut. Lee B. Harr, 114th Field Artillery. 

1st Lieut. John L. Lewis, 114th Field Artillery. 

2d Lieut. Alfred N. Phillips, Jr., I I 5th Field Ar- 
tillery. 

2d Lieut. John M. Roberts, I 15th Field Artillery. 

2d Lieut. Guerard H. Hawkins, 1 15th Field Ar- 
tillery. 

2d Lieut. Hamill W. Baker, 1 15th Field Artillery. 

2d Lieut. Ernest T. Gregory, 115th Field Ar- 
tillery. 

James S. Richards, 1 14th 



Field Ar- 
Barnaid J. Hailder, 114th Field Ar- 



2d Lieut, 
tillery. 

2d Lieut, 
tillery. 

2d Lieut. Daniel O. Smith. 1 1 4lh Field Artillery. 

2d Lieut. Stephen W. Waterbury, 1 1 4th Field Ar- 
tillery. 



2d Lieut. W. P. Bruce, I 1 4lh Field Artillery. 
2d Lieut. Casimer DeRham, I I 4th Field Artillery. 
The travel directed is necessary in the military 
service, 

Bti command of Brigadier-Ceneral Shipion: 
A. C. FiTZHUGH, 
Official: Caplam, 55th F. A. Brigade, 

Brigadier-General, N. A. Acting Adjutant 

te ta Sa 

G. H. Q. 

American Expeditionary Forces 

France, January 4, 1919 

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 4 
Extract 
109. The following officers of the 30th Division 
are relieved from their present assignment and will 
proceed to headquarters, 3d Division, reporting upon 
arrival to the Commanding General for assignment to 
a regiment or other duty: 

Headquarters 55th Field Artillery Brigade 
Major William H. Beckner, F. A. 
1st Lieut. Horace T. Polk, F. A. 
Capt. Arthur C. Fitzhugh, F. A. 
Capt. Willis T. Stewart, F. A. 

1 1 3th Field Artillery 
Capt. Arthur L. Fletcher, F. A. 
1 St Lieut. Joseph Lonergon, F. A. 
Capt. Isaac R. Wagner, Medical Corps. 
1st Lieut. Wallace D. Gibbs, Dental Corps. 

1 14th Field Artillery 
I St Lieut. Kellogg Boyton, F. A. 
2d Lieut. Frederick C. John, F. A. 

I 15th Field Artillery 
Major John H. Milam, F. A. 
Major Robert M. Milam, F. A. 
Capt. Max C. McKay, F. A. 
Capt. Ray C. Reeves, F. A. 
Capt. Otis W. Dressier, F. A. 
Capt. William J. Apperson, F. A. 
1st Lieut. Fred P. Lunda, F. A. 
1st Lieut. Ernest G. Hartley, F. A. 
1st Lieut. Robert B. Street, Chaplain. 
2d Lieut. Thomas M. Calvert, F. A. 
2d Lieut. Frank R. Bell, F. A. 



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105th Ammunitson Train 
Capt. William M. Carter, F. A. 
1st Lieut. John A. Rice, F. A. 

By command of General Pershing: 

James W. McAndrew, 
Official: Chief of Staff. 

Robert C. Davis, 

Adjutant-General. 

m m ta 

The following school assignments for the 55th F. 
A. Brigade were announced at Le Mans: 

Rennes — Department of Ille-et-Vilaine 
courses in law 

First Lieut. Caleb K. Burgess, 1 1 3th Field 
Artillery. 

First Lieut. Samuel M. Gattis, Jr., 113th Field 
Artillery. 

First Lieut. Enoch S. Simmons. 1 1 3th Field 
Artillery. 

Sergeant William H. Hays, San. Det., 114th 
Field Artillery. 

SoRBONNE University — District of Paris 

LAW 
Capt. Alfred W. Horton, 1 I 3th Field Artillery. 
Second Lieut. Charles E. Works, I 1 3th Field 
Artillery. 

letters 
Corporal T. Newton Beisinger, Hdqrs. Det.. 55th 
F. A. Brigade. 

Private, First Class, Paul E. Hussey, Bat. E, 
1 I 4th Field Artillery. 

Private Dane F. Smith, Bat. E. 114th Field 
Artillery. 

First Lieut. William ^■. Elliott, 114th Field 
Artillery. 

Second Lieut. William P. Sharpe, i 1 4th Field 
Artillery. 

Private, First Class, Bert A. Roller, Bat. E, I I 4th 
Field Artillery. 

Private, First Class, Durward B. Wheeler, Bat. E, 
1 Nth Field Artillery. 

SCIENCE 

First Lieut. Urban E. Bowes, Hdqrs., 55th F. A. 
Brigade. 

Second Lieut. Russell N. Boswell, I 1 3th Field 
Artillery. 



Second Lieut. Frank B. Myers, 1 1 4th Field 
Artillery. 

Second Lieut. Galen M. Stoughton, Hdqrs. Co., 
I 14th Field Artillery. 

Private Frederick E. Benjamin, Hdqrs. Det. 55th 
F. A. Brigade. 

MEDICINE 

Capt. Charles A. Bender, M.C., 115th Field 
Artillery. 

First Lieut. Reverdy VanW. Estill, M.C., 1 15th 
Field Artillery. 

Private Robert L. Bruce. Hqs. Det., 1 15th F. A. 

Above named students for Sorbonne will report at 
76 Rue Faubourg, Saint Horore, Paris. 

Poitiers — (Department of Vienne) 

LETTERS 

Second Lieut. Francis S. Harmon. 1 1 4th Field 
Artillery. 

Sergeant Spencer R. Mellow, Ord. Det., I 1 5th 
F. A. 

Private William W. Dixon, Bat. E. I 1 3th F. A. 

Beaune (Cote D'Or), American University, 
A. E. F. 
First Lieut. Lew W. Dougherty, D.C., 1 1 4lh 
F. A. Dentistry. 

I I 4th Field Artillery 

Ordnance Sergeant Orris A. Cummins, Ordnance 
Det., Civil Engineering. 

Private Edward W. Griffey, San. Det.. Medicine. 

First Sergeant Robert W. Rowlett, Bat. D, Arts 
(Arts and Science). 

Corporal Jerry C. Fitch, Bat. D, Arts (Arts and 
Science) . 

Corporal Joseph W. Riggs. Bat. D, Arts (Arts 
and Science). 

Corporal Cullie W. Bradley, Bat. E. Letters. 

1 I 5th Field Artillery 
Sergeant James C. Matthai, Bat. C, Business. 
Corporal James C. Wallace, Bat. C, Business. 
Sergeant Karl M. Kleeman, Bat. F, Business. 
Corporal John C. Figuers, Bat. F, Normal School. 
Corporal James H. Orr, Bat. F, Normal School. 



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Greenville and Camp Sevier, S. C. 

(i) The parade passing up Main Street. (2) Corporal Baker guarding rations. (3) Battery E's champion lug-of- 
war team. (4) The Medical Detachment mule that saluted General Faison. (5) The old court house at Green- 
ville. (6) Supply Company's street. 



Corporal James G. Holleman, Bat. P, Normal 
School. 

Private, First Class, James A. Hardison, Bat. F, 
Normal School. 

Private Howard Rutherford, Bat. F, Architectural. 
105th Ammunition Train 

Supply Sergeant Robert N. Means, Jr., Co. B, 
Agriculture. 



English Universities 

Captain Charles W. Muldrow, 105th Ammuni- 
tion Train. 

First Lieut. Horace D. Payne, I 1 5th Field 
Artillery. 

Second Lieut. Robert D. Frick, I 1 5th Field 
Artillery. 



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Second Lieut. Henson L. Robinson, 115th Field 
Artillery. 

First Sergeant George P. Evans, Bat. D, 1 1 4th 
F. A. 

Sergeant Paul Donaldson, Hqs. Co., 1 14th F. A. 

Sergeant Robert W. Wright. Bat. C, 1 1 4th F. A. 



Corporal Alfred M. Howard, Hqs. Co., 115th 
F. A. 

Private, First Class, John W. Summitt, Bat. C, 
1 1 4th F. A. 

Private Arthur Ericksen, Hqs. Det., 55th F. A. 
Brigade. 




The Great Day In Memphis 

(1) Regimental band of the 115th F. A. leading the parade. (2) Main street was solidly packed from Calhoun to 

Poplar. (3) Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. William J. Bacon. (4) The reviewing stand. (5) At Forrest Park. 

(6) Colonel Harry S. Berry and staff. (7) The column passing Court Square. (8) One of the batteries. 



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HISTORY OF THE 
1 1 4th field artillery 



The 1 1 4th Field Artillery 








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Colonel Luke Lea and Officers of 1 14th Field Artillery 



The 1 1 4th Field Artillery 



Immediately after the declaration of war against 
Germany, April 6, 1917, authority was granted for 
the organization of a regiment of field artillery in 
Tennessee as a part of the National Guard quota 
from this State, but it was not until about the middle 
of May that the real plans for the formation of the 
new regiment were set under way. 

The initial step in this direction was taken by Capt. 
Allen J. Greer, of the United States Army, a native 
Tennessean, who had been assigned to the Volunteer 
State for instruction work. He proposed with the 
sanction of the War Department, to raise a regiment, 
and as an experienced army man become Colonel. 
From the outset former Senator and former publisher 
of The Tennessean, Luke Lea, was mentioned to be- 
come Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment. This origi- 
nal plan was kept up for some time until it was defi- 
nitely learned that the War Department would not 
consent for Captain Greer to become Colonel of the 
National Guard regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel 
Lea did not become Colonel of the regiment until afler 
the Tennessee troops had been in training at Green- 
ville for some time. 

After June 18th the regiment was officially desig- 
nated as the First Tennessee Field Artillery, and by 
June 26lh the batteries had been practically filled to 
the required quota. 

The men who volunteered for service in this regi- 
men were the flower of young American manhood, 
eager and an;:'ous to render a .service for their coun- 



try, and if necessary to make the supreme sacrifice, 
a sad yet glorious fate that later in the great overseas 
battles befell some of them. 

The then First Tennessee Field Artillery was recog- 
nized as in the service of the State on July 20th. 

The first officers of the regim.ent, with home ad- 
dress, were as follows : 

FIELD AND STAFF 

Lieutenant-Colonel, Luke Lea (commanding), 
Nashville. 

Major (1st Bn.), Thos. H. R. Mclntyre, Chat- 
tanooga, 

Major (2d Bn.), Horace Frierson, Jr., Columbia. 

Captain (Reg. Adjt.), Leland S. MacPhail, 
Nashville. 

Captain (Adjt. 1st Bn.), Enoch Brown, Jr., Co- 
lumbia. 

Captain (Adjt. 2d Bn.), Reese T. Amis, Nash- 
ville. 

1st Lieut. (Chaplain) Eugene T. Clarke, Nash- 
ville. 

HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

Captain, Frank P. Gracey, Clarksville. 

First Lieutenant, Frank L. Cheek, Nashville. 

Second Lieutenant, Broadus Bailey, Franklin. 

SUPPLY COMPANY 
Captain, Robert A. Bailey, Jr., Franklm. 
1st L'eutenant, Nathaniel B. Jackson, Nashville. 



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SANITARY DETACHMENT 
Major, Larkin Smith, Nashville. 
1st Lieutenant, Harlan G. Tucker, Nashville. 
1st Lieutenant, Geo. C. Williamson, Nashville. 

BATTERY A 
Captain, Edward J. McCormack, Memphis. 

1st Lieutenant, Guy Joyner, Memphis. 

1 St Lieutenant, Walter Chandler, Memphis. 
2d Lieutenant, Paul Bacigalupo, Memphis. 
2d Lieutenant, James Neely, Memphis. 

BATTERY B 
Captain, James McGaughy, Chattanooga. 

1st Lieutenant, Paul J. Callan, Knoxville. 

1st Lieutenant, Joseph Trimby, Chattanooga. 
2d Lieutenant, Joseph C. Trimble, Chattanooga. 
2d Lieutenant, Elsvvorth Brown, Chattanooga. 

BATTERY C 
Captain, Roy V. Myers, Knoxville. 
I St Lieutenant, Lee Harr, Johnson City. 
1st Lieutenant, David J. Brittam, Maryville. 
2d Lieutenant, Geo. F. Milton, Jr., Chattanooga. 
2d Lieutenant, Vance Turner, Lewisburg. 

BATTERY D 
Captain, Leon Caraway, Big Sandy. 
1st Lieutenant, Jos. H. Moses, Big Sandy. 
1st Lieutenant, Emil Caldwell, Paris. 
2d Lieutenant, Dugger Rainey, Cottage Grove. 
2d Lieutenant, Gordon Browning, Huntingdon. 

BATTERY E 
Captain, E. Sweeney, Nashville. 

1st Lieutenant, Robert G. Fields, Nashville. 

1st Lieutenant, Jas. E. Brock, Nashville. 
2d Lieutenant, William Y. Elliott, Nashville. 
2d Lieutenant, John W. Gaines, Jr., Nashville. 

BATTERY F 
Captain, Thos. P. Henderson, Franklin. 

1st Lieutenant, Jos. P. Dunlop, Clarksville. 

1st Lieutenant, Edwin C. McNeal, Lawrenceburg. 
2d Lieutenant, Minter Gant, Columbia. 
2d Lieutenant, Francis Warfield, Columbia. 

VETERINARY DETACHMENT 

2d Lieuetnant (Vet.), Clement E. Kord, Co- 
lumbia. 



DENTAL DETACHMENT 
I St Lieutenant, Lew W. Dougherty, Camden. 

As was the history generally in the National Guard, 
many changes occurred in the official personnel of the 
regiment, and it is impossible in the circumscribed 
limits of this history to trace out all of them. Ap- 
pended is a roster of the officers, with duties at the time 
of the armistice. 

The history of the regiment at the training camp 
is about the same as that of the other regiments in 
the brigade. Colonel Lea and Lieutenant-Colonel 
Gleason completed the course of instruction at Fort 
Sam Houston and the Ft. Sill. Oklahoma, School of 
Fire, a regular army officer being in command during 
their absence. 

The regiment was designated as a horse-drawn 
three-inch command, and was originally to be armed 
with the American field piece of that calibre, but later 
was changed to the French 75 m-m. It fired the 
course at Cleveland Mill during March and April, 
and moved to Camp Mills with the other units of the 
brigade May 20, 1918. sailing on the British trans- 
port Karoa and landing in England. It moved to 
France and to Camp Coetquidan with the brigade, 
where it received its equipment and training before ad- 
vancing to the front in August. 

Throughout the war the regiment served with credit 
and efficiency. It was especially commended in or- 
ders by General Wright, commanding the 89th Divi- 
sion, for its work as accompanying artillery in the St. 
Mihiel drive. 

Roster of Commissioned Personnel, I I4th 
Field Artillery After Armistice 

field AND staff 
Colonel, Luke Lea. 
Lieutenant-Colonel, James A. Gleason. 
Captain, Frank B. Evers. 
Captain, John L. Craig. 

Major, Roy V. Myers (D. S., Langres, France). 
Captain, L. S. MacPhail. 
1st Lieutenant, Jesse M. Mitchell. 
Major, Horace Frierson, Jr. 
1st Lieutenant, Robert H. Bell. 

HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
Captain, Robert G. Fields. 
1st Lieutenant, Elsvvorth Brown. 
I St Lieutenant, Kellog Boynton. 



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1st Lieutenant, Tom W. Pointer. 
1 St Lieutenant, Charles Nelson. 
2d Lieutenant, John W. Shaw. 
2d Lieutenant, Robert T. Johnson. 
2d Lieutenant, G. M. Stoughton. 

BATTERY A 
Captain, Gordon Browning. 
I St Lieutenant, Samuel J. Fisher. 
I st Lieutenant, Alex W. Boone. 
2d Lieutenant, William C. Carman. 

BATTERY B 

Captain, Guy E. Joyner. 

1 st Lieutenant, Jefferson W. Findley. 

1st Lieutenant, McDonald H. Wilson. 

2d Lieutenant, Matt Monaghan. 

2d Lieutenant, 1 homas D. Maher. 

2d Lieutenant, Martyn W. Hart. 

BATTERY C 
Captain, Reese T. Amis. 
I st Lieutenant, Clarence H. McCoilum. 
2d Lieutenant, Clark N. Bass. 
2d Lieutenant, Frank B. Myers. 
2d Lieutenant, H. E. Swenson. 

BATTERY D 
Captain, Mitchell Long. 

1st Lieutenant, William Y. Elliott. 

1 st Lieutenant, John S. Short. 

2d Lieutenant,. H. D. W. Bowles. 

2d Lieutenant, Charles F. Kelly. 

BATTERY E 
Captain, Enoch Brown, Jr. 
1st Lieutenant, James E. Brock. 
2d Lieutenant, Clyde H. Hunter. 
2d Lieutenant, Samuel A. Hays. 

BATTERY F 
Captain, Thomas P. Henderson. 
1st Lieutenant, Edwin C. McNeal. 
2d Lieutenant, Francis S. Harmon. 
2d Lieutenant, John W. Myers. 
2d Lieutenant, William J. Suiter. 
2d Lieutenant, Frederick C. Johns. 

SUPPLY COMPANY 
Captain, Walter C. Chandler (D. S., 55th F. 
A. B.). 

1 st Lieutenant, Phil W. Cole. 
2d Lieutenant, James C. Neely. 



DETACHMENTS 

Sanitary Detachment — Major, Larkin Smith; 1st 
Lieutenant, Arthur C. Haney. 

Dental Detachment — 1st Lieutenant, Alexander 
W. Nance. 

Veterinary Detachment — 1 st Lieutenant, Clemens 

E. Kord; 2d Lieutenant, Charles Corson. 

While the regiment was moving from Trondes to 
the Le Mans area, preparatory to coming home, the 
freight train on which it was traveling, was wrecked 
because of lack of air brakes. Six men in the 1 1 4th 

F. A., two men in the I 13th F. A., and eleven men 
in the 105th Ammunition Train were killed and a 
number injured. The cars were equipped with air 
brakes, but a French caboose was attached next to the 
engine and there were no air connections with the 
freight cars. 

The wreck occurred near Manois, France, on the 
22d of January, 1919. 

Below is given the list of those men of this regi- 
ment killed, seriously and slightly injured in this wreck: 

KILLED 
Fasio. Louis, Bugler, Battery C, 114th F. A., Route 2, Tolbet, 

Tenn. Next of kin, Fasio, Nathan (father). 1213 North 

Clark St., Chicago, III. 
HoLLls, Samson T., Private, Battery C, 1 I4lh F. A., Route 8, 

Dothan, Ala. Next of kin, Hollis, Isaac (father). Route 8, 

Dothan, Ala. 
Capella, Joe, Pri\ate. Battery F, 114th F. A.. Staunton. 111. 

Next of kin, Capella, Juistana (mother), Benld, III. 
Watson, Sim. Private. First Class, Battery F, ll4lh F. A. 

Spring Hill, Tenn. Next of kin, Watson, J. W. (brother) 

Spring Hill, Tenn. 
Phillips, Onva K., Wagoner, Supply Co., 114th F. A.. Nar- 

cross, Tenn. Next of kin. Phillips, Mrs. Martha (mother), 

Narcross, Tenn. 
Wilkes, John N., Private, First Class, Ord. Del., 1 14th F. A., 

Whileville, Tenn. Next of kin, Wilkes, Mrs. Rosella 

(mother), Whiteville, Tenn. 

SERIOUSLY INJURED (SENT TO HOSPITAL) 

Brabham. Chas. C, PvI., Bat. E New Brockton, Ala. 

Rabat, Wm., Pvt., Bat. F. .2406 W. Congress St., Chicago, III. 

Powell, Homer C, Pvt., Bat. F Pleasant Point, Tenn. 

Smith. Claude C. Wag'r, Supply Co Carryton, Tenn. 

Adkins, Ira L., WagV, Sup. Co 

907 Thomas Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

SLIGHTLY INJURED (REMAINED WITH 
ORGANIZATION 

Bridcman, Dewey W.. Pvt., Bat. B Dayton, Tenn. 

BomaN, Robert F., Pvt., Bat. E Hanging Limb, Tenn. 

Smith, Lee W.. Mech., Bat. E Castillion Springs. Tenn. 

Watson, Clarence, 1st Sgt., Bat. F Columbia, Tenn. 



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RuPE, Robert W., Sgt., Bat. F.. .Roule 4, Mt. Pleasanl, Tenn. 

Meek. Abe L., Sgt., Bal. F Route 7. Columbia, Tern. 

Greensfelder, Herbert. Pvt. Ic. Bat. F 

806 Market St.. Logansport. Ind. 

CoNWAV, Bryan, Pvt., Bat. F Appldon, Tenn. 

Overton, John J., Pvt., Bat. F... Route 3. Columbia, Tenn. 
Marston, Taylor, Pvt. Ic, Bat. F. . . Route 3, Leoma, Tenn. 

Rackley, Willie W., Hs'r, Bat. F Good Springs, Tenn. 

Hughes, Charlie R., Pvt.. Bat. F.. Route 2. Danville. Ala. 

Harvey, LeRoy, Pvt., Bat. F Crawfordsville. Fla. 

Kearns, Wm. P., Bglr, Bat. F Moffalt, N. C. 

Ozment, Homer E., Mech., Supply Co 

2119 Sixth Ave., N., Nashville. Tenn. 

Holmes, Will[am W., Reg. Sup. Sgi, Supply Co 

C03 17th A\e.. S.. Nashville, Tenn. 

BlESCHKE, Walter J., Pvt. Ic, Ord. Det.. .Address unknown 
Kiel, Smith M., Sup. Sgt., Supply Co Clarksville, Tenn. 

LIST OF MEN WHO HAVE DIED OF DISEASE IN 

THE REGIMENT SINCE REGIMENT 

WAS FORMED 

Anderson, Edgar B., Corp Feb. 20, 1919 

Barnes, Raymond E., Pvt Dec. 6, 1917 

Barton, Charley, Pvt Jan. 23, 1918 

Black, William A., Pvl Feb. 19, 1919 

Blocker, Basil, Corp Feb. 13, 1919 

Butler, Fletcher W., Pvt Dec. 29, 1917 

Camp, Lionel L., Pvt Dec. 4, 1917 

Clayton. Grover C, Pvt Dec. 12, 1917 

Cleghorne, William R., Pvt Feb. 15, 1919 

Ferreter, James, Pvt July 30, 1918 

Gatlin, Joshua O., Pvt April 30, 1918 

Garreston, Teddy, Pvt Dec. 5, 1917 

Haart, Porter, Pvt Dec. 20, 1917 

Lewis, Walter A.. Pvt Feb. 22, 1919 

LocuE, Robert G., Pvt Dec. 21, 1917 

Miller, Oliver, Pvt. Ic Feb. 9, 1919 

Moore, George L., Pvt Feb. 18, 1919 

Patterson, Malcolm R., Pvt Oct. II, 1917 

McClanahan, Earl E., Isi Sgt Feb. 5, 1919 

Sherman, Charlie, Pvt Feb. 17, 1919 

Warren, John W., PvI Dec. 27, 1917 

LIST OF MEN WHO HAVE BEEN PROMOTED TO 

COMMISSIONS FROM THE RANKS SINCE 

REGIMENT WAS FORMED 

Joseph, Evans T First Sergeant 

Adams, David B Private 

Bass, Clark N Sergeant 

BucHNER, Edward R Sergeant 

Bible Bernard B Sergeant 

Bruner, Robert L First Sergeant 

Carmen. William C Sergeant 

Craig, William R First Sergeant 

DoAK, Samuel A Corporal 

Davis, Paul H Corporal 

Dunton, Harold F Private 

Evers, Frank B Sergeant 

Faircloth, Edward C First Sergeant 



Fentress, Mangum Sergeant 

Frierson, William C Regimental Sergeant Major 

Gilbert, John W Sergeant 

Goddard, Tho.mas W Sergeant 

Hunter, Clyde H Sergeant 

Hughes, Owen W Batlalio.i Sergeanl-Major 

Daniel, William Supply Sergeant 

Paschall, Douglas Sergeant 

Bell, Robert H Sergeant 

Nelson, Charles Corporal 

Glaze, John W Sergeant 

Johnson, Robert T Sergeant 

Jennings, Bernard E Sergeant 

Kleeman. William Supply Sergeant 

Maher, Thomas D Sergeant 

Mitchell, Jesse M Sergeani 

Monochan, Matthew First Sergeant 

Moore, George E Sergeani 

McCoLLUM, Cl; rence H First Sergeant 

Pinkston, John R Private 

Piper, Oliver Private 

Robinson, Dan M Sergeant 

Smith, Maxwell T Private First Class 

Smith, Daniel O Sergeant 

Sharpe, William P Corporal 

Sharpe, John B Sergeani 

Shaw, John W Sergeant 

Watson, Howard P First Sergeant 

WiGGS, Norman S Sergeant 

Wills, Ridley First Sergeant 

Bruce, William P Sergeant 

TenNISON, Lon Private 

Polk, Horace T Balalion Sergeant Major 

ROSTER OF BATTERY A 
I 14th Field Artillery 

December 31, 1918 

Austin, Jesse D Lexington, Tenn. 

Addison, Bijio, Pvt Highland Home, Ala. 

Allen, Will A., Mech Lambert, Miss. 

Alexander, Jas. B., Pvl.. .279 Adams Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Amond, Leland H., Pvt 70 Willow St., Pottsdam, N. Y. 

Anthony, Reubin J., Pvt R. F. D. 1, Collierville, Tenn. 

Arnold, P. N., Ch. Mech.. .1709 Monroe Sl, Memphis, Tenn. 

Arriotti, p.. Corp 1277 S. Wellington, Memphis, Tenn. 

Barasso, a., Pvt 115 Market St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Barasso, Silva, Cook 115 Market St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Bates, Robt. L., Pvt. Ic... 742 Breedlove, Memphis, Tenn. 
Baxter, D. H., Cook. . R. F. D. 1, Box 291, Memphis, Tenn. 

Bee, Wm. D., Sgt 336 High St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Belancer, Henry J., Pvl Noilh Stratford, N. H. 

Bennett, Lincham F., Pvt Freeland, N. C. 

Bennett, Paul C, Cook 9th & Club, Durham, N. C. 

Borlock. Wm. E.. Pvt. Ic. . .583 Exch. Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Biddy, Davis, Hs'r 947 Barton St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Breadwell, John F., PvI Cassandra, Pa. 

Broon, James S., Corp.. . . 1 183 Fountain Ct., Memphis, Tenn. 
Burnett, Carl U., Pvt. Ic Bethel Springs, Tenn. 



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Burnett. Geo. H.. PvI. Ic Boluar, Tenn. 

BuRRUs, Geo. H.. PvI. Ic R. F. D.. Memphis. Tenn. 

Buchanan, W. E., PvI.. . . 1043 Faxon Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Bynum, John E., Corp 63 N. Cooper, Memphis, Tenn. 

Calhoun. Lawrence E., Cop Boniia. La. 

Cannon, Earnest H., PvI.- Tracy City, Tenn. 

Carstens, C. S., Pvt 991 Faxon. Memphis. Tenn. 

Chambers, N. O., Corp.... 1207 McLcmore, Memphis, Tenn. 

Chamblin, Aubrey B., Pvt. Ic Sardis, Miss. 

Clarlos, Edgar W., P. I R. F. D., Carrollon, Miss. 

ClassnUS, Wm. H., Sgl 432 Mosby. Memphis, Tenn. 

CleaRY, M. J., Pvl 1007 E. J;sep'i PI., Memphis, Tenn. 

Connolly, M. L., Pvl 113 Monroe. Memphis. Tenn. 

Cook, W. P., Pvt....R. F. D. 1. Box 127-A, Memphis, Tenn. 
Crowe, Geo. E., Pvt.... 2 174 Madison Ave.. Memphis. Tenn. 

Croumon, James R., Pvt Slurgis, Miss. 

CuCKLER, SeyMORE, Pvl Sophia, W. Va. 

DaCUS, Walter C, Pvl East Lake, Tenn. 

Dale, Duell N., PvI. Ic Jamestown. Ind. 

Davis. Thos. M., Pvt 654 Chelsea Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Dawkins, Henry, Mech Slurgis, Miss. 

Dilts. H. F.. Pvl 1400 Carr Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Dolan. J. J.. Jr.. Corp 1437 Court Ave.. Memphis. Tenn. 

Dollahite. William E.. Corp Water Valley, Miss. 

Duke, J. A., Jr., Pvt., 161 E. Carolina Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

EcKLAi. William R., Pvt Lenow. Tenn. 

ElDERT, Chas W.. Pvl 1C37 E. Jos. PI.. Memphis, Tenn. 

Evans, Hilburn B., PvI. Ic Freeland, N. C. 

Evans, Jas. B., Pvt Box 139, Courtland, Tenn. 

Evans, James D., Pvt Magnolia, N. C. 

Evans, J. C, Pvt. Ic R. F. D. 1. Box 62. Tunica, Miss. 

Fairleigh, Hall B., Pvl Paris. Tenn. 

Ferrell. J. L.. Pvl.. . .R. F. D. 2, Box 28. Livingston. Tenn. 

Fielding, Hedley S., Pvt Memphis, Tenn. 

Fischer, L. H., Pvt. Ic 1970 Carr Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Fox, L. p.. Corp 552 N. Manassas. Memphis. Tenn. 

Calloway, Homer T.. Pvt Monlevallo, Ala. 

Garrett. Hobio, Pvt West Fork, Tenn. 

Goodman. J. H.. Corp.. .R. F. D. 1. Box 31 1. Memphis, Tenn. 

Corsuch, Earl B., Pvt 13 E. 5th, Waynesboro, Pa. 

Gregg, Marvin, Pvl Crawford, Tenn. 

Groner, Geo. B.. PvI Selinsgrove, Pa. 

GuiNN, Marvin A.. Pvl Big Rock. Tenn. 

Handleman, H., Pvl. Ic 731 Polk Si., Memphis, Tenn. 

Hardison, Jos. A., Pvl 606 E. 13th, Wilmington, N. C. 

Hargis, George. Pvt R. F. D. I, Crawford, Tenn. 

Harper. Fred C, Pvl. Ic Vinson, Okla. 

Hasty, Edw. W., Pvt 58 N. Paul ne, Memphis, Tenn. 

Hatfield, F. S., Corp 939 Drcalur. Memphis, Tenn. 

Hawkins. Wm. O., Sgl 722 McLemore, Memphis, Tenn. 

Hays, Andrew J., I si Sgl 53 Roper, Mobile, Ala. 

HoLUMS, Thos. L., Sup. Sg! Water Valley, Miss. 

Hedrick. Charlie, Corp Vincent, Ark. 

HoBSON, John E., Pvt 679 Poplar, Memphis. Tenn. 

HOLLINGSHEAD. T.. Pvt Rou'e 7, Box 141, Ripley, Tenn. 

Hooper, H., Pvt. Ic 343 Boyd PI.. Memphis, Tenn. 

Hunter. Harry M., Pvt. Ic. 384 E. Trigg St., Memphis, Tenn. 
Jahn, Jos. O., Pvt S. 9th, Walerton, Wis. 



Johnson, Jas. C, Corp 1760 Madison, Memphis, Tenn. 

Johnson, K. E., Pvt 1971 Mad son, Memphis, Tenn. 

Johnson, V. M.. Pv l. 1 c Memphis, Bunlyn, Tenn. 

JosLiN, Victor O.. Pvl Sharon Springs. Tenn. 

King, Ford S., PvI. Ic 109 E. 1 lih, Caruthersville, Mo. 

Knott, Warren, Pvt Crawfordsville, Ark. 

Kuntz, Percy, Pvt. Ic 167 S. Main, Memphis, Tenn. 

LambIRTH, Jos. M.. Pvl 924 Park, Memphis, Tenn. 

Law, Erwin M., Pvl Roule 1, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Lawless, Rufus F., PvI. Ic Rou e 5, Morrislown. Tenn. 

Lemons, Claud L.. PvI. !c Route 1, Corrylon, Tenn. 

Lewis, Scnodrs. Pvt 2S Tomklns. Clarksville. Tenn. 

Light. H. J.. Mess Sgl 758 Bullmglon, Memphis, Tenn. 

LiPPi, Norman J.. Sgl 406 Avery, Memphis, Tenn. 

Loft, Wm. N.. Pvt. Ic 379 Raybum, Memphis, Tenn. 

Loudon, Vernon L., Pvl 220 Court, Memphis, Tenn. 

Matthews, Dennie F., Pvt. Ic 65 Alpine, Dubuque, Iowa 

McNeil, Allison J., Sgt Armour & Co., Helena, Ark. 

McOwEN, ROBT. K., Pvl 984 Keel, Memphis, Tenn. 

Mitchell, B. M., PvI....463 Si. Joreph. New Orleans. La. 
Mitchell. W. P.. Hs'r.. . . 1076 Walker Ave., Memphis Tenn. 

Moore, C. L., Pvl. Ic 225 Okolona, Memphis, Tenn. 

MoraRITY, Wm. J.. Corp 1694 Walker, Memphis, Tenn. 

Mowmann, M. G., Pvt.. .West. Un. Tel. Co.. Memphis, Tenn. 

Nicholson, Joseph H., Pvt Miami. Okla. 

NuNN, James J., Pvl. 1 c Bells, Tenn. 

Parker, Chas. H.. Pvl Siralford. N. H. 

Payne, Frank L., Pvl Box 135, Route 2, Lucy, Tenn. 

Phillips, Wm. G.. Corp Grand Junction. Tenn. 

Pickard. Russell, PvI Route 1. Burleson, Tenn. 

Pinner, Julius A.. Pvl Whiteville. Tenn. 

Plexico. Saml. H.. Sgt Colonial Apts., Greenville, S. C. 

Precise, ChalMER E., Pvt Route 1, Palestine, Ark. 

Presley, William L., Pvt. Ic Sardis. Tenn. 

Ray, Albert J.. Pvt Sardis, Miss. 

Reinahacen, T.. Corp 772 E. McLemore. Memphis, Tenn. 

RiFKIN, Jake, PvI 381 Linden Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Robinson, R, V.. Pvl Route 6. Box 293, Memphis, Tenn. 

RoDES, William C. Sgt Petersburg. Tenn. 

Rogers. Frank, PvI. Ic U. S. Army 

RosEBERRY, Geo. N.. Pvl. Ic Kerville. Tenn. 

RosebERRY, John W.. Pvt. Ic Kerville, Tenn. 

Sanders, J. R., Pvt 295 N. Manassas, Memphis, Tenn. 

Santi, C, Cook 1277 S. Wellington, Memphis, Tenn. 

SaTTERLY, James, Pvt.... Route I, Box 95, Cornishville, Ky. 
Saunders, Jas. L., Pvl.... 784 Taxicab Co., Memphis, Tenn. 

Sellers, Marvin E., Pvt 1481 Carr Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Smith, Charlie H., Pvl. Ic Collierville, Tenn. 

Smith, Eugene J., Sgt 282 Jones St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Smith, Harvell F., Corp BIytheville, Ark. 

Standerfer, Wm. J., Pvl Allenville. 111. 

StraTTON, D. B., Corp 605 McDonald, Helena. Ark 

Tato, George W.. Pvt. Ic Route 3. Vandalia. Ill 

Taylor. Bert L.. Corp Vandalia. 111. 

Taylor. R. M., Corp 229 Le? St.. Memphis. Tenn. 

Teegarden, Jesse D.. Pvt. Ic Georgetown. Ky. 

Tomlinson, D. M., Pvt. Ic. . .Route 2, Stamping Ground, Ky. 
Traylor, Vernon L.. Pvi. Ic Teresiia, Ky. 



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Tucker, Nolan C, PvI Scotishill, Tenn. 

Turner, N. A., Pvt. Ic R. F. D. 4, Williamstown, Ky. 

TuTWILER, C. B., Sla. Sgl.. .Mfs. St. Ry. Co., Memphis, Tenn. 

Upton, E. E., Pvl. Ic 3222 W. 7lh, Lilile Rock, Ark. 

Wade, Ripley, Corp Box 38, Whistler, Ala. 

Wagner, Luther, Pvt. Ic Route 3, Falmouth, Ky. 

Wagner, Peter P.. P\t Alexandria, Campbell. Ky. 

Walker, Peter P., Pvt. Ic Gen Del., Springfield, III. 

Warren, Pate, Pvt. Ic Trussville, Ala. 

Weir, Jos. A., Pvt 483 Mosby, Memphis, Tenn. 

Wheeler, Phil, Pvt Glencoe, Kj 

Wilkes, Barnett S., Corp Whiteville, Term 

WiLLEY, p. E., Pvt 746 Metcalf PI., Memphis, Tenn. 

Williams, Charlie J., Pvt Roj'e 3, Cynthiana, Ky. 

Williams, Malcolm O., Co/p Charleston, Miss. 

Williams, Rolah W., Pvt. Ic Roue 3, Cynthiana, Ky. 

Williamson, N. E., Mech.. 1198 Lamar Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Willis, J. R., Pvt 1646 Kennilworth. Memphis, Tenn. 

Willis, R. E., Pvt. Ic 1767 Nelson, Memphis, Tenn. 

Wilson, Earl H., Pvt Route 1, Spratt, Ohio 

Wilson, Howard, Pvt Route 1, Sparla, Ky. 

Wilson, R., Pvt 720 Franklin St., Zanesiille, Ohio 

Wise, Charley, Pvl Route 3, Stamping Ground, Ky. 

Wise, H. W., Pvt 1260 Thoams St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Young, Chas. W., Pvt. I c Route 1 , Lexington, Ky. 

Attached to Battery Pending Receipt of 
Service Records from C. R. O. 

These men were wounded or gassed or sent to hospital sick. 

Austin, Jesse D., Hs'r Lexington, Tenn. 

CaUESTRARI, J., Pvt. Ic 1334 Shall St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Cox, W. T., Jr., Pvl. Ic. . . 1 105 S. 30lS Si., Birmingham, Ala. 

Cooper, J. E., Pvt 1223 Wellington St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Dabbs, Chas. P., Sgt 197 S. Barksdale, Memphis, Tenn. 

Franks, Albert J., Pvt Forrest City, Ark. 

Frazier, Fred E., Pvi Casialia, N. C. 

Garland, Jefferson T., Pvt. Ic Enid, Miss. 

Kamaski, a., Pvt 1616 Simon St.. Fort Vernon, Ind. 

Keywood, Orbra a., Pvt. Ic Bartlelt, Tenn. 

Leedy, Jesse H., Corp Bramwell, W. Va. 

McRiGHT, Edward D., Pvt. Ic Mingo, Miss. 

Monteith, Jas. C, Pvt Route 1, Brunswick, Tenn. 

Moore, Cecil S., Pvl. Ic Milam, Tenn. 

Peyton, W. H., Pvt Route 3, Hollywood, Memphis, Tenn. 

PURNELL, H. C, Pvl 454 Monroe Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

QUALLS, Bryant B., Pvt Route 2, Byhalia, Miss. 

Stampley, Elbert, Pvt 166 Court, Memphis, Tenn. 

Shuman, Stanley B., Pvt Mobley, W. Va. 

Thompson, Louis C, Pvl Route 1, Fulton, Ky. 

Waldemer, a. D., Pvt 824 Exch. Bldg., Memphis, Tenn. 

LIST OF WOUNDED OR GASSED, AND DATES 

Borner, Frank T., Pm Gassed, Oct. 19, 1918 

Keywood, Orbra A., Pvl Wounder, Sept. 13, 1918 

Satterly, James. Pvt Wounded, SepL 13, 1918 

Smith, Marvell F., Corp Gassed, Oct. 6, 1918 

Vescova. Paul, Pvt Gassed, Oct. 17, 1918 

Waldauer, Abe D., Pvt Gassed Ocl. 6, 1918 



LIST KILLED, ETC. 
Barton, Charlie L., died Jan. 23, 1918, lobar pneumonia, 

base hoipilal. Camp Sevier, S. C. Next of kin, Mrs. Barton 

(mother). 2086 Union Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 
Robinson, Charles P., killed in ac:ion by bomb from plane, 

Xammes, France, Sept. 13, 19l8. Next of kin, John W. 

Robinson (father). Bradford, Ark. 
Ross, Oscar, killed in action by bomb f.-o.ii plane, Xammes, 

France. Sept. 13, 1918. Next of kn. Gum Ross (father), 

Erin, Tenn. 
TrINKLE, Millard, seriously wounded H S shell, Les Eparges 

Nov. 5, 1918, died in ambulance en route to hospital. Next 

of kin, Mrs. Clara Trinkle (mothjr), Ghent, Ky. 
Ward, Joe R., seriously wounded, bomb from plane, Argonne, 

Ocl. 5, 1918, died m hospital Nov. 29, 1918. Next of kin, 

Mrs. Mollie Ward (mothei), Grand Junction, Tenn. 

LIST OF MEN WHO LEFT REGIMENT 
Abshire, Ace E., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital, Oct. 26, 1918. 
Adams, David B., discharged to accept comm., Nov. 27, 1917. 
Barton, Charlie L., died, lobar pneumonia, Jan. 23, 1918. 
Baucom, Thomas A., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital, Oct. 

10, 1918. 
Blankenship, William A., transferred lo 19th Engineers, 

March 10, 1918. 
BoRNER, Frank T., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital, Oct. 

18, 1918. 

BoYD, Samuel J., transferred lo 35th Engineers. Mar. 10, 1918. 
Brooks, Fred L., admitted sick to S. O. S. Hospital, Ocl. 

16, 1918. 
Brown, Michael A., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital, Sept. 13, 

1918. 
BURRUS, Oscar T., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital, Nov. 25, 

1918. 
C/RTER, John N., transferred to 35th Engineers, March 10. 

1918. 
Cecil, Dennis F., transferred lo 55th F. A. B., Dec. 6, 1918. 
Chisholm, Ernest W., transferred to 35th Engineers, Mar 

19, 1918. 

Clark, Alfred O., discharged, fraudulent enlistment. Con. 

minority, A.pril 3, 1918. 
Clarke, James S., admitted lo S. O. S. Hospital, Sept. 9, 1918. 
CosTLEY, Daniel W., transferred to Q. M. C, May 10, 1918. 
Durby, Forest L., transferred lo Motor Mech. Regiment, Jan. 

28, 1918. 

Dunton, Harold F.. discharged to accept commission, Nov. 

Nov. 27, 1917. 
Evans, Homer G., left sick Bass Hospilal, Camp Sevier, 

S. C, May 20, 1918. 
Fentress, Mangum, transferred lo Samur Artillery Candi- 

dales' School, July 31, 1918. 
Flann, Tony, admitted lo S. O. S. Hospital, Nov. 25, 1918. 
Freeman, Lyle I., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital, Dec. 14, 

1918. 

GaiTHER, John P., transferred to Motor Mech. Regiment, 

Jan. 28. 1918. 
Garbarina, Louis, admitled lo S. O. S. Hospital, Oct. 18. 

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Garvin, Clarence A., absent without leave, dropped under 
General Order 111, A. E. F., Oct. I, 1918. 

Gerber, Morris, admitted to S. O. S. Hospital, Sept. 15, 1918. 

GoLDSBV, Preston H., absent without leave, dropped under 
General Order 1 1 1 , G. H. Q., Sept. 21, 1918. 

Grady, James L., discharged account fraudulent enlistment. 
Con. minority, Jan. 21, 1918. 

Haskin, Phil, transferred to Army Headquarters Regiment, 
A. E. F., Jan. 8, 1918. 

Hauchten, George S., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital, Nov. 
25, 1918. 

Henneberger, Henry A., transferred to 19th Engineers, Mar. 
10, 1918. 

Irby, Edward K., transferred lo 20lh Engineers, Jan. 29, 1918. 

Kelley, Percy, transferred lo inactive list, reporting to Sub- 
marine Boat Work? Corporation, May 3, 1918. 

Lively, Thomas Wm., discharged account of dependent rela- 
tives. May 18, 1918. 

Luttrell, James L., discharged on account of dependent rela- 
tives, Sept. 20, 1917. 

Manning, Frank B., discharged S. C. D., Feb. 19, 1918. 

Marks, Harry L., transferred Q. M. C, Feb. 20, 1918. 

McGuFFEY, James E., left sick in Base Hospital. Camp Se- 
vier, S. C, May 20, 1918. 

MURR.4Y, John M., discharged S. C. D., Dec. 29. 1918. 

Nolan, James C, admitted to S. O. S. Hospital. Nov. 26, 
1918. 

Payne, Phillip W., transferred to 19th Engineers, Mar. 10, 
1918. 

Peaslee, Edward E., discharged account of dependent rela- 
tives, Nov. 7, 1917. 

Perkins, William A., transferred to Prov. Bn., Camp Sevier, 
S. C, April 26, 1918. 

PiNKSTON, John R., discharged lo accept commission, Nov. 
27, 1917. 

Piper, Oliver, discharged lo accept commission, Nov. 27, 1917. 

Rice, William S., discharged account fraudulent enlistment. 
Con. minority, Oct. 17, 1917. 

Robinson, Charles P., killed in action. Sept. 13, 1918. 

Roper, Malcolm M., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital. Jan. 5, 
1919. 

Ross, Oscar, killed in action, Sept. 13, 1918. 

Sanderson, Charlie M., left sick in Camp Hospital, Camp Se- 
vier, S. C, May 20, 1918. 
Shields, John C, transferred to Army Headquarters Regiment, 
A. E. F., Jan. 8, 1918. 

Schneider, Clarence A., transferred to 30th Division Head- 
quarters Troop, Sept. 24, 1918. 

Scholes, Paul E., transferred to Q. M. C, Feb. 20, 1918. 

SlSK, Ennis M., left sick in Camp Hospital, Samp Sevier, 
S. C, May 20, 1918. 

Smith, Harry M., transferred to Q. M. C, Jan. 29, 1918. 

Smith. Jess N., transferred to Prov. Bn., Camp Sevier, S. C, 
April 26, 1918. 

Stampley, Albert W., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital. Dec. 
11, 1918. 

SuRBER, Hazel J., admitted to S. O. S. Hospital. Nov. 21. 
1918. 



ThueTT, Lewie, transferred to 55th F. A. B., Headquarters 

Detachment, November, 1918. 
Trinkle, Millard, died from wounds, Nov. 5, 1918. 
ToRRls, Alphonse, discharged S. C. D., Dec. 18, 1917. 
Vescova, Paul, admitted lo S. O. S. Hospital, Oct. 17, 1913. 
Ward, Joseph R., died from wounds. Nov. 29, 1918. 
Wallace, Fred L., discharged S. C. D , Jan. 6, 1918. 
Watkins, Frank W., deserted, Sept. 2, 1917. 
Watkins, Oscar L., left sick in Camp Hospital, Camp Mills, 

U. S. A., May 25, 1918. 
Williams, Charles R., transferred lo 105th Ammunition 

Train, Jan. 28, 1918. 
\'elTEMA, Frank A., transferred to Mech. Motor Regiment, 

Jan. 28, 1918. 

LIST OF MEN SENT TO TRAINING SCHOOLS 
Adams, David B., 2d Officers Training School, Ft. Oglethorpe. 
Bee, William D.. Samour Art. Can. Sch., Aug. 31, 1918. 
Dunton, Harold F., 2d Officers Train. School, Ft. Oglethorp. 
Fentress, Mancum, Saumur Art. Can. Sch., July 31. 1918, 
PiNKSTON, John R., 2d Officers Art. Sch., Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. 
Piper, Oliver, 2d Officers Art. Sch., Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. 

ROSTER OF BATTERY B 
I I 4th Field Artillery 

Alexander, Earl M., Pvt Dunlap, Tenn. 

Allen, Wm. O., Pvt. Ic Route 5, Smilhville, Tenn. 

Ault, Otto T., Sgt Pikeville, Tenn. 

AusT, J. R., Jr., Corp.. . .2223 Murphy Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
Baker, B. B., Sup. Sgt.. .207 Williams St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Bean, Henry, Pvt. Ic Trion, Ga. 

Beck, Will, Pvt. 1 c St. Elmo, Tenn. 

Bennett, W. R., Pvt. Ic 

1255 E. Market St., Sunbury, Northumberland. Pa. 

Blackburn, W. I., Corp.. . .15 Henry St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Bolling, W. E., Sgl 2225 Patterson St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Bridgman, D. H., Pvt., 306 Dodson Ave., Chattanooga, Tenn 
Brown, B. B., Sgt.... 1206 Gartland Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Brown, Jos. C, Pvt 10 Stuart St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Bryant, James S., Pvt Trion. Ga. 

Bryant, M. A., Corp 617 Carlisle St., Challanooga, Tenn. 

Buchanan, Edw. M., Pvt. Ic East Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Burke, E. F., Sgt 452 Chesnul St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Byerley, W. F., Pvt.. . .504 Sholar St., E. Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Cagle, W., Pvt.... 2501 Miller Ave., E. Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Cain, Charlie C, Pvt East Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Capley, Chester C, Pvt St. Elmo, Tenn. 

Card, Rex G., Pvt Soddy, Tenn. 

Christol, Roet. F., Ptft Trion, Ga. 

Clark, Jasper L., Pvt Chattanooja, Tenn. 

Clements, HearN F., Mech Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Conner, Andrew J., Pvt. Ic Soddy, Tenn. 

Cornelius, Allie C. Pvt Trion, Ga. 

CoRNWELL, Luther, Pvt Route 1, Bethpage, Tenn. 

Cruse, C. E., Pvt 1242 W. 26th St., Chaltanooja, Tenn. 

Curry, S. H.. Pvt. Ic, Route 1, Burgettstown, Washington, Pa. 

Dalton, a. L., Pil. Ic Ocall St., Copper Hill, Tenn. 

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Davis, G. E., Pvt Route I , Graysville, Tenn. 

Dent, Flavis 1., Cook Hixon, Tenn. 

Eaker, E. H., Corp 913 E. 13lh St., Challanooga, Tenn. 

Eaves, Robert E., Pvt Address Unknown 

Elrod, Walter B., Pvt Cleveland, Tenn. 

Elsea, Wm. a., Pvt East Challanooga, Tenn. 

Emerson, Wm. F., Pvt King's Point, Tenn. 

Evans, James R., Pvt Oneida, Tenn. 

Freeman, Wm. B., Pvt. I c Halls, Tenn. 

Freeman, Wm. P., Pvt. Ic East Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Fuller, W. B., Pvt 109 Melcher Ave., Elkhart, Ind. 

Ford, Wm. B., Pvt Zionville, N. C. 

Forrester, Lloyd G., Pvt Trophiel, N. C. 

Foor, Elton R., PvI Route 5, Rays Cove. Bedford, Pa. 

Gardner. Wm. H., Sgt 26 Rulledge St.. Nashville. Tenn. 

GiLLA'i'. J. B., Pvt 15 Hamihon Ave., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Gilliam, K. V., Pvt. Ic . .314 Cherry St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Gilliam, W.. Corp 314 Clierry St.. Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Green. Dewey S., Pvt. Ic Trion, Ga. 

Grisham, Wm. L., Pvt. Ic East Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Gross. Robert, Pvt East Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Gorcanious, O. T., Pvt Raleich Rd., Rocky Ml, N. C. 

Garrett, Mark G., Pvt Route I, Nelson, Va. 

Haywood, Doc A., Pvt Trion, Ga. 

Haley, Grant H., Pvt Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Hammond, Henry S., Pvt Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Hammond. Vernon A., Corp Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Harris, Friel, Corp Trion, Ga. 

Hendron, Joe S., Sgt Curve, Tenn. 

Hooker, Wm. H., Pvt. Ic Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Hughes, Harry A., Pvt Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Hughes, Henry, Pvt Challanooga, Tenn. 

Hughes, Jack E., Pvt. Ic Chattanooga, Tenn. 

HuTCHERSON, ErasTUS L., PvI. Ic Davislon, Ala. 

Hatcher, John G., Pvt Route 2, New Hill, N. C. 

Huff, Thomas E., Pvt.. ..110 McCracken Ave., Clifton, Ky. 

Hulburt, Rort. B., Corp Chattanooga, Tenn. 

IvEY, Henry L., Pvt. Ic Marion, S. C. 

Jackson, Luther, Pvt. Ic Trion, Ga. 

Lans, Geo. R., Corp Route 3, Afton, Tenn. 

Lenior, Leo, Pvt. 1 c Trion, Ga. 

Lee, Wm. V., Pvt. Ic Sequatchie, Tenn. 

Levi, William C, Pvt Address Unknown 

Lewis, Earl J., Pvt East Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Lewis, Foster V., Corp East Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Llewellyn, Richard, Pvt. Ic Challanooga, Tenn. 

LoFSTROM, Paul J., Pvt 2605 River Si., Pittsburg, Pa. 

March. Paul, Pvt. Ic Cowan. Tenn. 

MassEY, Marvin T., Pvt Rout; 1. Lookout Ml., Tenn. 

Mathany, Wm. C, Corp Challanooga, Tenn. 

Mathis, Chas. F., Cook Chattanooga, Tenn. 

McCoRMICK, B. F., IslSgL. ,316 Pine Sl. Chattanooga, Tenn. 

McDonoUGH, Andy E., Hs'r Challanooga, Tenn. 

McGee, Ben H., Pvt 119 S. M.ll St., Lexington, Ky. 

McKlssiCK, Tats, Ch. Mech Chattanooga, Tenn. 

McNabb, Bart, Corp North Challanooga, Tenn. 

Meacham, Geo. O., Pvt. Ic Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Moreland, a. D., Pvt East Chattanooga, Tenn. 



MosER. Roy, Pvt Greenville, S. C. 

MouLTON, Thos. J., Sgt North Challanooga, Tenn. 

MiLLICAN. LiNDER, Pvt. Ic Tower Hill, 111. 

Morris, Thomas, Pvt Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

Mitchell, James, Pvt. Ic Tulsa, Okla. 

Myers, Earl, PvL Ic 9lh Ave., S., Sl. Paul, Minn. 

Nauspickel, Lawrence A., Pvt Route 1, Kenton, Ky. 

NiCKERSON, Orville A., Corp Francesville, Ind. 

Narum, William, Pvt Wanbun, Minn. 

NiELSON, Christian, Pvt Tyler. Minn. 

O'Haar, Harry C, Cook East Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Pennington, Roy T.. Pvt Brookwood, Ala. 

Pollard, William M., Corp McMinnville, Tenn. 

PoE, Leslie F., Pvt Route I, Stamping Ground, Ky. 

Pritchett, C. C, Corp 35 Carrie Ave., Detroit, Mich. 

QuiNN, Carl O., Hs'r Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Ragan, Wm. v., Pvt Route 4, West Nashville, Tenn. 

Rape, Tho.mas J., Corp Trion, Ga. 

Reavis, John W., Pvt Route 1, Fayelleville, Tenn. 

Rhodes, Walter S., Pvt Challanooga, Tenn. 

Rogers, John H., Hs'r Address Unknown 

Rogers, John, Pvt Address Unknown 

Riegler, George, Pvt Erlanger, Ky. 

Records, Eugene M., Pu Route 1, Falmouth, Ky. 

Rankin, Lora B., Pvt. I c Route 9. Cynlhiana, Ky. 

Sanders, R. C, Pvt. Ic Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Seigler, John E., Pvt Challanooga, Tenn. 

Shannon, Arvel S.. Pvt Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Shubert, Will, Pvt Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Smallwood, Clayton, Bgh Trion, Ga. 

Smith, H. R.. Bglr.. .151 Rossville A\e., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Smith, Paul D., Sgt College Grove, Tenn. 

SnelSON, W. N., Corp.. .514 Allen St., E. Challanooga, Tenn. 

Steele, John F., Pvt East Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Stricklin, J. A., Sgt.. . . 135 Tremont St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Swing, Will S., Corp Tullahoma, Tenn. 

Sharpe, Alvie, Pvt Atwater, 111. 

Spann, Clyde F., Pvt Address Unknown 

SoUTHWORTH, Jerry F., Pvt. Ic Georgetown, Ky. 

Schenck, Earl B., Pvt Worlhville, Ky. 

Sutherland, W. L., Pvt. 1c...Ro le 1. Lawrenceburg, Ky. 

Sturgeon, Harvey, Pvt. Ic Verona, Ky. 

Stanton, Wm. R., Sgt 903 Main St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Smiley, Geo., Pvt Rojte 3, Kingston Ross, Ohio 

ToLIVER, John F., Sgt Beech Grove, Tenn. 

ToRBETT, Oliver G., Pvt Challanooga, Tenn. 

Turner, Geo. H., Pvt Address Unknown 

VoGT, William C. Pvt Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Walker, Freeman C, Corp Route 1, Gales. Tenn. 

Walker, Guy, Pvt Route I, Gates, Tenn. 

Wampler, H. C, Pvt 1 100 Penn. Ave., Bristol, Tenn. 

Warren. Robt. E., Pvt Chattanooga, Tenn. 

West, Ernest P., Pvt. Ic Chattanooga, Tenn. 

White, Albert B., Cook Pikeville, Tenn. 

White, Willard Q., Pvt Pikeville, Tenn. 

WiGINGTON, Chas. F., Pvt Address Unknown 

WiLHOYT, Clyde F., Pvt. Ic Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Worley, Price A., Pvt. Ic Allon Park, Tenn. 



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Hasse, M. S., Pvt 1 122 Demonbreun St., Nashville. Tenn. 

Johnson, Fate W.. Pvt Chattanooga, Tenn. 

MlELKE, Edward J., Pvt Morgan, Minn. 

Moore, Thos. W., Pvt. ...1411 Grundy St., Nashville, Tenn. 
Newman, O. W., Sgl 2418 Wash. Ave., KnoxviUe, Tenn. 

LIST OF MEN WOUNDED OR GASSED, AND DATE 

Simmons, Wm. C, Pvt Wounded, Sept. 13, 1918 

HoLBERT, Robert A., Pvt Wounded, Oct. 7, 1918 

Stricklin, John A., SergI Gassed, Oct. 7, 1918 

Stanley, Bruce E., Mech Gassed, Oct. 7, 1918 

Ramsey, John N., P\I Gassed, Oct. 7, 1918 

VocT, William C, Pvt Gassed, Oct. 7, 1918 

Rogers, John, Pvt Gassed, Oct. 7, 1918 

Schneider, Joseph M., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 7, 1918 

Wood, Ralph K., Corp Gassed, Oct. 7, 1918 

Gattis, Claude J., Corp Gassed, Oct. 7, 1918 

Moreland, Thos W., Corp.. .Missing in action, Oct. 7. 1918 

White, William M., Pvt Gassed, OcL 7. 1918 

BoBO, Charles A., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Dake. William B., Corp Gassed, OcL 12, 1918 

Dent, Flavis 1., Corp Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Eaves, Robert E., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Edens, James F., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Ferguson, Nicholas J., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Gardner, William H., Sgi Gassed, OcL 12, 1918 

Garrison. William N., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Geicer, Winfield H., Pvt Gassed, OcL 12, 1918 

GiLLEY, Jasper D., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Gilliam, Featherstone O., Coip Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Green, Dewey S., Pvt Gassed. Oct. 12, 1918 

Hall, Barnard E., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Johnson, Eskar L., Corp Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Kenn, Arthur A., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Lee, William V., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Leroy, General M., Mech Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

McCoLLUM, Brady, Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

MouLTON, Thomas J., Sgt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Neal, Horace M., Pvt Gassed, Oct 12, 1918 

O'Neal, Claude, Pvt Gassed, OcL 12, 1918 

Payne, Henry F., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Scott, Clarence, Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Spann, Clyde W., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

ToLivER, John W., Sgt Gassed, OcL 12. 1918 

ToRBETT, Oliver C, Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1913 

Vaughn, Earl E., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

White, William A., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Womack, Herman, Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Wood, Ralph K., Sgt Gassed, OcL 12, 1918 

Gardner, Robert J., Sgt Gassed, Oci. 12, 1918 

Edwards, Frank B., Sgt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Ault, Otto T., Corp Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Sneison, William N., Corp Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Garrett, Mark G., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

Morris, Fred, Pvt Gassed, OcL 12, 1918 

Park, James E., Corp Gassed, OcL 12, 1918 

Hammond, Henry S., PvI Gassed, OcL 12, 1918 



Bean, Henry, Pvt Gassed. OcL 12, 1918 

Plemmons, William F., Pvt Gassed, Oct. 20, 1918 

Monaghan, Matt., Lieut Gassed, Oct. 12, 1918 

MacPhail, L. S., Capt Gassed, Oct. 7, 1913 

Boone, Alex N., Lieut Wounded, SepL 12, 1918 

LIST OF MEN WHO HAVE PERMANENTLY LEFT 
REGIMENT* 

Clandennon, John G Transferred 

Prokoptch. William Transferred 

StoNECIPHER, Elmer Transferred 

Cathney. Jack C Transferred 

Palmer. Julius J Transferred 

Palmer, Goldman Transferred 

Sprouse, Henry S Discharged 

Rogers, Eddie F Transferred 

Simmons, Bert Transferred 

White, Homer G Transferred 

Camp, Leonel L Died in U. 3. 

Belvin, Father L Discharged 

Montgomery, R. B Discharged 

Robertson, Judson Discharged 

Tanner, Albert R Discharged 

Emery, Roy I Discharged 

Marcom, Henry L Discharged 

Roberts, William A Deserter 

Knett, Charlie I Killed at Camp de Coetquidan 

Payne, Charlie I Sentenced to Penitentiary 

Lamen, Graham E Deserter 

Gates, Ben J : Discharged 

Gossett, Albert R Discharged 

Gray, Parke J Discharged 

Morton, James M Deserter 

Strickler, David E Discharged 

LIST OF MEN SENT TO TRAINING SCHOOLS 
Jennings, Bernard E., Sgt. 
Biole, Bernard E., Sgt. 
Brown, Barton B., Sgt. 

HiGGINBOTHAM, WALLACE L., Sgt. 

Craig, William R., Sgl. 

LIST OF MEN KILLED 
Ramsey, William F., Corporal. Killed in action by a shell 

splinter near Epplonville, France, on October 7, 1918. 
Springer, John, Private, First Class. Killed in action by a 

shell splinted, near Epptonville, France, on October 7, 

1918. 
Randall, Carlton H., Private. Wounded in action by a shell 

splinter, near Les Esparges, France, on October 27, 1918. 

Died in hospital. October 28, 1918. 

DIED FROM DISEASE 

Camp, L. Q., Private, Camp Sevier. Dec. 4. 1917. 

* Owing to a great portion of the records of this battery 
being salvaged at Sanzay, it is impossible to give the dates. 



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BATTERY C 
1 14th Field Artillery 

AlLOR, Ted R., PvI. Ic 201 Elliot St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Akers, William S.. Pvt Morrislown, Tenn. 

Atkin. Frank S., Corp 710 Henly St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

AuLT, RuFUS W 605 W. Vine St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Baker, Lewis M., Corp Route 8, Knoxville, Tenn. 

BaIRD, Edgar, Bug Jacksboro, Tenn. 

Bales, Henry L., Corp Morristown, Tenn. 

Barnett, Oliver O., Pvt Blytheville, Ark. 

Beasley, Lester A., Pvt Route 2, Henninton, Tenn. 

Best, Earl M.. Corp 914 Holston St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

BiCKNELL, G. C, Pvt. Ic. . .726 Eleanor St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Bishop, Clarence A., Mech Route 8, Knoxville, Tenn, 

Bishop, Lindsey J., Pvt.. . .102 Long St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Bolincer, W. I; Pvl Springfield, Colo. 

Bradley, E. E., Corp 900 E. Park Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Brakebill, Rankin L., Pvt Madisonville, Tenn. 

Brewer, Elner, Pvt. Ic Maryville, Tenn. 

Brocdon, Harvey B., Pvt. Ic Route 1, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Brown, Guy B., Sgt Rural Retreat, Va 

Bruchbrooker, G. H., Pvt 

3483 Amber St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Bunch, R. M., Sgt 201 4th St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Buck, John L., Pvt Reagan, Tenn. 

Butler, Robert E., Pvt Kingsport, Tenn. 

Byrd, Roy C, Sdlr Maryville, Tenn. 

Carson, Mentor W., Corp Maryville, Tenn. 

CaYLOR, Brack D., PvI Route 1, Smithville, Tenn. 

Charles, James W., Pvt Morristown, Tenn. 

Chittum, H. a., Pvt 830 14th St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Cline, Raymond, Pvt. Ic Route 7. Knoxville, Tenn. 

Collins, John T., Pvt 392 Jackson Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

COPELAND, C. C, Pvt. Ic 

. 107 E. Delaware Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Dawn, James E., Pvt. Ic Andersonville, Tenn. 

Davis, Hugh C, Pvl. Ic Route 3, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Dempster, Robt. B., Ssl....99 W. 3th St., Knoxville, Tenn. 
Drinnon, Robt., Pvt.. . .818 Linwood Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Dunbar, Jas., Pvt 3613 S. 84th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Either, Philias, Pvt Box 1 54, Nasonville. R. I. 

Ellis, Elmer, Corp Friendsville, Tenn. 

Ellis, Roland S., Pvt Kodak. Tenn. 

Epps, Thomas K., Pvt. Ic Morristown, Tenn. 

Everhard, Servias L., Mech. ,944 South St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Fario, Louis, Bglr Route 2, Talbot, Tenn. 

Feathers, Cecil A., Pvt Route 5, Knoxville, Tenn. 

FiCLEY, Claude M., Pvt Route 4, Manchester, Tenn. 

Foster, W. N., Corp 410 E. Main St.. Knoxville, Tenn. 

Fox, Alger L., Bglr Dandridge. Tenn. 

FOUST, Everett E., Mech 210 9th St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Galyean, Roy H., Pvt. Ic Address Unknown 

Garrett, Douglas, H'sr Morristown, Tenn, 

Gay, Thomas E., Pvt Maryville, Tenn. 

Gelhot, Joseph J.. Pvl Route I, Curve, Tenn. 

Gibbons, Donald R., Pvt Southgate, Ky. 

Gillian, Chas. C, Pvt. Ic Maryville, Tenn. 

Glenn, Jas. W., Pvt 620 Union Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 



Geigh, Ira J., Pvt Boschito, Okla. 

Greco, Guiceippi, Pvt Erianger, Ky. 

Green, Elbert C, Pet McDonald St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Green, Calvin E., Pvt 900 E. Park St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Gross, George E., Pvt Maryville, Tenn. 

Grubb, Earl D., Pvt 605 Union St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Hamby, Frank C, Cook Morristown, Tenn. 

Hamby, M. W., Pvt 729 E. Main St., Maryville, Tenn. 

Hancock, R. H., Cook... 729 E. Main St., Maryville, Tenn. 

Hanniffin, B. J., Pvt 5 Vance St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Hays, Alex. P., Pvt 410 Commerce St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Heck, William H., Pvt Dothan, Ala. 

Helms, James J., Pvt Shawmut, Ala. 

Helton, William B., Pvt. Ic Morristown, Tenn. 

Henderlight, Robt. C, Pvt Route 6, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Henley, Rollo H., Pvt. Ic Bacon's Ferry, Tenn. 

Hightower, James L., Pvl. Ic Thumsea, Fla. 

Hildreth, Thomas N., Pvt Star Route, Evergreen, Ala. 

Hill, Nahor H., Corp Morristown. Tenn. 

Hill, Stanley V., Pvt Lanett, Ala. 

Hodge, Ernest T., Corp 214 Fulton St., Johnson, Tenn. 

Holder, Benjamin, Pvl Maryville, Tenn. 

HOLLIS, Sampson T., Pvt Route 8, Dothan, Ala. 

Hopperton, James M., Pvt Criltendon, Ky. 

Hudson, Murphy, Pvt Route 4, Corinth, Ky. 

Hurley, Noah T., Pvl. Ic. . . .Route I, Pittsburg Ldg., Tenn. 

Hurst, William T., Pvt Dadeville, Ala. 

HUTSON. Dewey T., Pvt Route 3, Jacksboro, Tenn. 

Jackson. G. B., Jr., Corp. . .713 Walnut St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Hefner, James R., Pvt Knoxville, Tenn. 

Jackson, Samuel J., Pvl Friendsville, Tenn. 

Jett, Earl H., Cook Carrolllon, Ky. 

Johnson, A. R., Pvt Route 9, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Jones, Chester, Pvt 616 S. Broadway, Lexington, Ky. 

Jones, George, Pvt Poindexter, Ky. 

Jones, Walter, Pvi Route 7, Paris, Ky. 

Koehler, Charles, Pvl Brownstown, 111. 

Kramer, Everett F., Pvt Route 8, Springfield, 111. 

Kreucer, August J., Pvt Route 17, Riverlon, III. 

KriSCUNAS, Y., Pvl 213 W. Jefferson St., Springfield, III. 

KuHL. Henry P., Pvt Route 2, Alexander, Ky. 

Langfield, Samuel F., Pvl Route 8, Springfield, III. 

Lee, Sampson D., Pvl. Ic Maryville, Tenn. 

Lewis, Walter A., Pvt. Ic Route 2, Worthville. Ky. 

Liciilyter, Paul E., Pvt. 1 c Dandridge, Tenn. 

Lloyd, Raymond E., Pvt. Ic Kansas City, Mo. 

Lyle, Robt. B., Corp Johnson City, Tenn. 

Link, Cord H., Sgt 2702 E. 13th St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

McCampbell, Alvin P., Pvl Richard City, Tenn. 

McClain, Horton E.. Pvt Mayfield, Ky. 

McDonald, Samuel J., Pvt Route 4, Newbern, Tenn. 

McGhee, Alex W., Jr., Pvt., 300 Clark St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

McGhee. Walter C, Pvl Blount County, Tenn. 

Mainiero, Leonordo, Pvl 635 Lenora St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Marada, Frank, Pvl Riverton, 111. 

Mason, Archie E., Pvt Madisonville, Tenn. 

Mathis. Paul E.. Pvt. Ic Burns. Tenn. 

Miller, C. F., Pvt. Ic. 100 W. Delaware St.. Knoxville. Tenn. 



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Miller, O., PvI. Ic 1816 Madison Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Monday, Samuel, Pvt Route 1 1, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Monday, Tine, Pvt Route 1 1, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Morgan, G. R., Pvt.. .1422 Armstrong Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Morton, Verless J., Cook Maryville, Tenn. 

Munday, H. A., Pvt. Ic 203 Oak Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Murrin, Clarence, H'sr Jefferson City, Tenn. 

Myers, Thomas E., Pvt Knoxville, Tenn. 

Myers, Ezra D., Corp Maryville, Tenn. 

Palmer, Robt, Corp 412 Granger St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Parker, H. C, Pvt 1200 Bowman St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Patton, Landon R.. Corp Jefferson City, Tenn. 

Paylor, Wm. F., PvI 638 N. Gay St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Piper, Albert M., Corp Greenville. Tenn. 

Piper, Wilbur F., Sgt Greenville, Tenn. 

Pitt, William A., Pvt Columbia, N. C. 

Proffitt, C. a., Pvl., 1 120 Island Home Pk., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Proffitt, John C, Pvt Route 6, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Proffitt, Rort. T., Pvt Route 6, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Query, H. C Corp.. .219 Conimerce Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Ramsey, S. C, Pvt. 1 c 

117 E. Anderson Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Randolph, Nathan H., Sgt Address Unknown 

Ray, T. H., Pvt. Ic... 1926 Magnolia Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Richards, L. C, Mech 408 Morgan St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

RiTTER, H. G., Pvt. Ic. . . .539 W. 5th Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Schettler, E. A., Pvt 949 Dodson St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

ScOTT, Jas. H., Pvt.. . .222 Lawrence Alley, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Shelton, Robt., H'sr Route 3, Cleveland, Tenn. 

Sheridan, Wm. G., Sgt.. . .727 N. 5tli Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Sheehan, M. W., Corp Ill Silver St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Shipley, Leslie I., Pvt Route 13, Jonesboro, Tenn. 

Shipley, Laster A., Sgt Route 13, Jonesboro, Tenn. 

Shook, Jas. T., Pvt Route 6, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Smith, Oliver, Pvt Lexington, Tenn. 

Snydor, Paul, Pvt 609 New St., Roring Spgs., Pa. 

Solomon, Ples J., Corp 960 Lee Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Suiter, Carlos E., Corp Bluefield, W. Va. 

Summitt, John W., Pvt. Ic LaFolletle, Tenn. 

Thompson, Earl E., Pvt Route 5, Maryville, Tenn. 

Thomson, Chas. H., P\t. Ic Route 2, Maryville, Tenn. 

Tomes, Gerald P., Pvt 916 Princess St., York, Pa. 

Tye, Walter, 1st Sgt 304 Walnut St., Knoxville. Tenn. 

Walker, Leslie G., Sgt Maryville, Tenn. 

Walker, Roy D., Pvt 1513 Vance St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Waterhouse, Jas., Corp Washington, Tenn. 

Wallace, Loria Q., Pvt Route 4, Gorton, Tenn. 

Watson, Roney H., Pvt Morristown, Tenn. 

Webb, Rowan S., Pvt Marion Apts., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Wells, Gordon R., Corp Route 10, Knoxville, Tenn. 

West, Jesse G., Pvt Address Unknown 

Wetherby, Carrick W., Sgt Johnson City, Tenn. 

Wilson, E. M., Pvl. Ic. . . .407 Dawson PI., Knoxville, Tenn. 
Wilson, Chas., Pvt. Ic. .. 1219 W. 4th Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Williams, Lee R., Pvt. Ic Morristown, Tenn. 

Windham, Samuel H., Pvl HllUboro, Ala. 

Wright, James M., Pvt. Ic LaFolletle, Tenn. 

Wright, Robt. W., Sgt Madisonville, Tenn. 



YouNCE, Oscar E., Sgl Russellville, Tenn 

Young, Arthur E., Corp.. . . 1 102 Oak St., Knoxville, Tenn 

Attached 

Hodges, Jas. H., IslSgt Oak St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

OFFICERS WOUNDED OR GASSED 
None 

MEN WOUNDED 

Goodson, Clarence C, Pvt Oci. 29, 1918 

LiLLARD, Charles K., Pvt Oct. 29, 1918 

Bollinger, Hugh E., Pvl Nov. 11, 1918 

Johnson, John B., Sgt Nov. 13, 1913 

MEN GASSED 
KiDD. Walter, Pvl Nov. II, 1918 

OFFICERS AND MEN KILLED 
None 

OFFICERS AND MEN WHO HAVE PERMANENTLY 
LEFT REGIMENT 

Brittain, David J., First Lieutenant. 

Harr, Lee B., First Lieutenant. 

Milton, George P., Jr., Second Lieutenant. 

Turner, Zebulon B., Second Lieutenant. 

Johnson, Roy S., First Sergeant. 

Everett, Howell E., Sergeant. 

Littlefield, Arthur N., Sergeant. 

Dempsey, Clarence A., Saddler. 

Whitaker, Arthur P., Private (Brig. Hq.). 

NuNN, William T., Private. 

Harris, Byard E., Private. 

Stevens, Vivian L., Private. 

Haws, Thomas H., Private. 

MosER, Grover R., Private. 

Monday, Saunders E., Private. 

NoE, Lewis S., Private. 

Parker, Robert I., Private. 

Sisk, Hubert C, Private. 

Cantrell, William H., Private (Lt. Brig. Hq.). 

Clark, James E., Private (Brig. Hq ). 

CoMSTOCK, Samuel L., Private. 

Davis, William T., Private. 

Gray, Robert S., Private. 

Hyatt, James B., Private (Brig. Hq). 

Major, Ralph L., Private. 

Rutherford, Raymond C, Private. 

Smiley, George, Private. 

Smith, Bert E., Private. 

Smith, Carl C, Private. 

Spurgeon, Lavater V., Priva e. 

Strain, James D., Private. 

Whelahan, Patrick J., Private. 

Young, John M., Private. 

Men who have been admitted to S. O. S. Hospital not in- 
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MEN SENT TO TRAINING SCHOOLS 
GoDDARD, Thomas N., Sergeant. Second Training Camp. 
DoAK, Samuel, Corporal, Second Training Camp. 
Smith, Maxwell T.. Private, Second Training Camp. 
Gilbert, John W., Sergeant, commissioned from short course 

at Camp Sevier. 
'Wright, Robert W.. Sergeant, Third Training Camp. 
Brunner, Lyle, Sergeant, Third Training Camp. 
*Webb, George S., Sergeant, Third Training Camp. 
Moore. George E., Sergeant, Third Training Camp. 
Davis, Paul H., Corporal, Third Training Camp. 
Watson, Howard P., First Sergeant, Saumur. 
*H0DCES, James S., First Sergeant, Saumur. 
Bray, Lennox J., First Sergeant, Saumur. 

LIST OF MEN WHO DIED FROM DISEASE 

Miller, Oliver, Pvt. Ic Feb. 9, 1919 

Lewis, Walter A., Pvt Feb. 22. 1919 

ROSTER OF BATTERY D 
1 14th Field Artillery 

December 31, 1918 

AcuFF, Allen V., Pvt. Ic Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Adams, Earl, Pvt Route I, Powder Springs, Tenn. 

Aden, Lowery F., Pvt 309 W. Wood St., Paris, Tenn. 

Atchison, Carlisle, Sgt Memphis, Tenn. 

Allred, Burgess C, Pvt Worthville, N. C. 

Baker, Joe B., Pvt Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Barcroft, Tommie, Corp Brownsville, Tenn. 

Blackwood, Quitman C, Pvt Paris, Tenn. 

Bomar, Joe E., Pvt. Ic Camden, Tenn. 

BoYCE, Isaac H., Pvt. Ic Paris, Tenn. 

Boring, James O., Pvt Ironsburg, Tenn. 

BoWDEN, Robert L., Pvt Paris, Tenn. 

Brigance, Silvis, Pvt Trenton, Tenn. 

Broach, Cletis C. Corp Murray, Ky. 

Browning, John L., Pvt. Ic Paris, Tenn. 

Bruce, Roma W., Cook Paris, Tenn. 

Bryant, Morgan G., Pvt Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Bucy, John B., Pvt. Ic Route 1, Buchanan, Tenn. 

Burney, Jesse C, Pvt Clarksville, Tenn. 

Brandt, Clyde M., Corp Harrisburg, Pa. 

Byrn, Hillsman, Pvt Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Callis, Vernon, Pvt. Ic Trenton, Tenn. 

Campbell, Romah B., Hs'r Springville, Tenn. 

Campbell. Burney H., Pvt. Ic Paris, Tenn. 

Chenoweth, George C, Pvt. Ic Paris, Tenn. 

Chipman, Joseph F., Pvt Ripley, Tenn. 

Churchwell, Jamie W.. Pvt Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Churchwell, Clyde, Pvt Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Claxton, James E., Pvt Whitlock, Tenn. 

Coleman, W. P., Corp 510 S. Royal St., Jackson, Tenn. 

Cook, Alva, Pvt Brownsville. Tenn. 

Cox, EaRLIE H., Pvt. 1 c Hollow Rock. Tenn. 

Cox, William W., Pvt Brownsville, Tenn. 

Cooper, Theo, Pvt Route 5, Trenton, Tenn. 

Crow. Henry, Sd'lr Route 7, Jackson, Tenn. 



* Men who were returned to this organization. 



Curran, p. J., Pvt 21 Central Sq., E. Boston, Mass 

Davis, Lon V., Pvt Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Davidson, Charlie. Pvt. Ic Trenton, Tenn. 

Davidson, Guy, Corp Trenton, Tenn. 

Davidson, Thomas P., Pvt. Ic Paris, Tenn. 

DeCarli, Angelo, Pvt. Ic Livingston, 111. 

Devaney, Martin J., Pvt New Baden, 111. 

Donahus, Wm. C, Pvt E. Maruch Chunk, Carbon, Pa. 

Deffenbaugh, Porter, Pvt. Ic Macoupin, III. 

Derrington, Henry, Pvt. Ic Mansfield, Tenn 

DiNWiDDiE, Philip R., Pvt. Ic Paris, Tenn. 

Doherty. Claude, Pvt. Ic Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Ellis. Ed R., Corp Cottage Grove, Tenn. 

Elliott, Edwin, Pvt Caseyville, 111. 

Farmer, William A., Pvt Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Fitch, Jerry C, Corp Springville, Tenn. 

Fitchpatrick, Charles, Pvt. Ic Big Sandy, Tenn. 

FoRSYTiiE, Claude N., Corp Milan, Tenn. 

FuTRELL, Chesley O., Pvt. Ic Cottage Grove, Tenn. 

Gaddy, Clifton, Pvt Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Gallardy, John C, Pvt Summer Hill, Gambia, Pa. 

Galloway, Horace E., Pvt. Ic Trezevant, Tenn. 

Garrett, John D., Pvt. Ic Route 5, McKenzie, Tenn. 

Gaylor, William A., Corp Paris, Tenn. 

Greenhouse. M., Pvt., 999 S. Water St., New Bedford, Mass. 

Gibson. Hugh A.. Pvt Riverton, III. 

Green, Thomas B., Sgt Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Goodwin, John H., Corp Trezevant, Tenn. 

Goeke, Edward G., Pvt Dayton, Ky. 

GuiLL, Ephriam L., Pvt. Ic McKenzie, Tenn. 

GosNEY, Edgar, Pvt Batter, Ky. 

Guthrie, Willie F., Pvt Sharpsburg, Ky. 

Hamer, Elvis, Pvt Erin, Tenn. 

Hamer, Robert, Pvt. 1 c Erin, Tenn. 

HaRGIS, Elcie R., Pvt Camden, Tenn. 

Hargis, Lee F., Pvt. Ic Camden, Tenn. 

Harrington, Robert C, fg Huntingdon, Tenn. 

HatLEY, Mark, Pvt Camden, Tenn. 

HaynES, Herbert E., Pvt. Ic. . . .Route 2. Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Herndon. Roger R., PvI. I c Eva, Tenn. 

Harrison, Joseph, Pvt Louisville, Ky. 

Hickman, Forney W.. Pvt Sylenga, Ala. 

Hicks, Cuterill, J., Pvt Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Holland, Eugene A., Pvt Camden, Tenn. 

Holland, John J., Corp Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Hoppers, Gus, Pvt Ripley, Tenn. 

Howell, Gregory, Corp Brownsville, Tenn. 

Hunt, Cedric A., Pvt. Ic Jackson, Tenn. 

Hurst, Henry H., Pvt Mumford, Ala. 

Hurt, William D., Hs'r Route 6, Paris, Tenn. 

Jenkins, Benjamin V., Mech Huntingdon, Tenn. 

James, Rhonald E., Pvt Longdale, Ala. 

Janes, Edd, Pvt Route 6, Paris, Tenn. 

Jones, Elvis N., Hs'r Route 2, Cheap Hill, Tenn. 

Jones, Guilford, Corp Paris, Tenn. 

Jordan, Robert, Pvt Pittsborough, N. C. 

Johnson, Ernest. Pvt Springfield, III. 

Kesterson, Presley, Pvt Paris, Tenn. 



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Kirk, Clinnard, PvI Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Kirk, LeRoy, Pvt Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Langford, Richard, Pvt. Ic Biownsville, Tenn. 

Lashlee, HerschEL, Corp Camden, Tenn. 

Lewis, John, Pvt. Ic Trenton, Tenn. 

Lewis, Virgile, Pvt Camden, Tenn. 

Lilly, Polie, Pvt Fairfax, Ala. 

Livingston, R. S., Pvt., 1303 W. Adams St., Jacksonville, Fla. 

Long, Lindsay R., Pvt Rccksboro, N. C. 

Loving, Alex M., Pvt Paris, Tenn. 

Mahaffey, Ora, Pvt llliopolis, 111. 

Marchbanks, Ruel, Pvt Route 4, Camden, Tenn. 

Marler, Lester M., Pvt Dayton, Tenn. 

Maahs, Gustav J., Pvt.. . .5027 N. 16th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Marrs, Willie D., Pvt Springville, Tenn. 

McClurg, Willie, Pvt Standing Rock, Ala. 

McWlLLiAMS, Elbert, Pvt. ...8 Havana St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Melton, Royal, Pvt. Ic Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Merritt, Leonard V., Pvt. 1 c Paris, Tenn. 

MicHAUx, Arthur C, Pvt Fulton, Ky. 

Moody, Arty C, Pvt Buchanan, Tenn. 

Moody, John W., Sgt Buchanan, Tenn. 

Moore, Rawlins, Corp Danville, Tenn. 

Moran, Elbert, Pvt Erin, Tenn. 

MoYE, Virgil E., Pvt. Ic Fountain Head, Tenn. 

Nanney, Wesley C, Pvt. 1 c Paris, Tenn. 

Norris, William L., Cook Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Nichols. Earl W., Corp Jackson, Tenn. 

Oliver, Newman W., Corp Paris, Tenn. 

Owen, Benjamin V., Cook Jackson, Tenn. 

Palmer, Ezra E., Pvt Hollow Rock, Tenn. 

Parr, Oscar C, Sgt Trenton, Tenn. 

Pflueger, Herbert, Pvt. Ic Buchanan, Tenn. 

Pierce, Robt. N., Corp Paris, Tenn. 

Pierce, Omar J., Pvt. Ic Paris, Tenn. 

Pierce, DeWitt, Pvt. Ic Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Presson, Arade D., PvI Route 5, Paris. Tenn. 

Presson, Irby, Pvt Springville, Tenn. 

PryOR, AlmYR J., Mech Paris, Tenn. 

Pullen, Chas. a.. Pvt. Ic Murray, Ky. 

Rasberry, Walter L., Pvt Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Redden, Lieper H., Pvt Mansfield, Tenn. 

Richardson, Louis, Corp Erin, Tenn. 

RicGs, Joseph W., Corp Springville, Tenn. 

Rhodes, Osa E.. Pvt. Ic Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Rose, Arthur S., Sgt Brownsville, Tenn. 

Rowlett. Robert, 1 st Sgt Paris, Tenn. 

Rust, Arthur L., Corp Huntingdon. Tenn. 

Rust, Clifford, Pvt. Ic Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Ryan, Lawrence, Pvt. Ic Brownsville, Tenn. 

Satterwhite, Lee B., Corp Erin, Tenn. 

Savell, J. M., Corp 233 3rd Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Sayle, Julius E., Pvt Memphis, Tenn. 

Sharp, Avery, Pvt Duff, Tenn. 

SiEBER, William H., Sgt Jackson, Tenn. 

Sills, Abb, Pvt Brownsville, Tenn. 

Sills, Jake, Pvt Brownsville, Tenn. 

Smith, Alonzo, Pvt Camden, Tenn. 



Smith, Clarence R., Mech McKenzie, Tenn. 

Smith, George D., Sgt Springville, Tenn. 

Smith, Hilliard C, Pvt Bassett, Ark. 

SoYERs, Gordon W., Pvt Mason, Tenn. 

Stewart, Carl W., Corp Milan, Tenn. 

Stewart, Thomas, Pvt. Ic Whiteville, Tenn. 

Stuart, Donovan, Ch. Mech Brownsville, Tenn. 

Spellings, John T., Pvt.. . . 1271 College St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Sullivan, Belton O., Sgt Jackson, Tenn. 

Taylor, Prince, Pvt Paris, Tenn. 

Teague, George J., Pvt Philadelphia, Pa. 

Tharpe, Robert H., Sgt Paris, Tenn. 

Thoimas, Horace, Pvt. Ic Milan, Tenn. 

Travis, Robert A., Sgt Paris, Tenn. 

Vantreese, Ellis B., Sgt Jackson, Tenn. 

Vermalen, Louis C, Pvt. Ic New Baden, 111. 

Walters, William R.. Pvt Springville, Tenn. 

Warren, John, Pvt Paris, Tenn. 

Wheatley, Richard F.. Pvt Faxon, Tenn. 

Whitaker, DeEstis, Pvt , Huntingdon, Tenn. 

Williams, Hugh, Pvt Jackson, Tenn. 

Wilson, William H., Cook Beech Bluff, Tenn. 

Winters, Edward M., Pvt Big Sandy, Tenn. 

Wynn, Eliga S.. Pvt Dulac, Tenn. 

York, Mike, Pvt Celina, Tenn. 

Young, George T.. Pvt Riverton, 111. 

WOUNDED AND G.4SSED 

Decarli, John, Pvt., Ic, wounded by shell near Flirey, 

France, Sept. 12, 1918. 
Fetrow, Clarence E., Pvt., wounded by shell near Flirey, 

France, Sept. 12, 1918. 
Carpenter, Lewis T., Pvt., gassed, Troyon Sector, Oct. 

12, 1918. 

KILLED 

Browning, Walter W., Pvt. Ic. Killed by shell Sept. 12. 
1918, near Flirey, France. Nearest kin. Miss Hazel Brown- 
ing (sister). 305 West Twelfth St., Newport. Ky. 

OFFICERS LEAVING REGIMENT PERMANENTLY 
Carrowav. Leon. Capt., resigned at Washington, D. C, 
March 5, 1918. 

MEN LEAVING REGIMENT PERMANENTLY. 
"HONORABLY DISCH.'^RGED" 

BoYCE, John F., Sgt Nov. 18, 1917 

Harlan, Paul M., Sgt April 22, 1918 

McKelvey, Frank B., Corp OcL 19, 1917 

Pierce, Charles L., Pvt Feb. 5, 1918 

Redden, Louis C, Pvt Nov. 2, 1917 

Watson, George W.. Corp May 8, 1918 

BowDEN, Robert L., Pvt Nov. I, 1917 

Craney. .Albert L.. Pvt Feb. 20, 1918 

Hicks, Theron M., Pvt May 3, 1918 

Nichols, Douglas, Pvt Feb. 12, 1918 

Strother, Cecil, Pvt March 6, 1918 

Wiggins. Thelma S., Pvt Nov. 24, 1917 



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TRANSFERRED 

Ballard, Hohn D., PvI., Io Motor Mech. Reg., Augustus. 

Ga., Jan. 29, 1918. 
Barber, Paul W., Pvt., to Prov. Battalion, Camp Sevier, 

S. C, May I. 1918. 
Creswell. Robert E., PvI., to 23d Engineers, Nov. 18, 1917. 
Ellis, Fred, Pvt., to Provisional BaUaLon, Camp Sevier, S. C, 

May 1, 1918. 
Evans, George P., 1st Sgt., to Saumur Artillery School, Oct. 

26, 1918. 
French, William C, Sgt., to 105th M. P., Jan. 25, 1918. 
Hartley, Ulmont A., Pvt., to 105th M. P., Jan. 26, 1918. 
Herron, Robert E., Corp., to Camp Q. M., Camp Sevier, 

S. C, April 4, 1918. 
Kee, Virgil E., Corp., to 105ih M. P., Jan. 29, 1918. 
Kimbrell. Alex, Pvt., lo Vet. Corps, Mobile Section No. 103, 

April 18, 1918. 
Lampley, John T., Pvt., to 35lh Engineers, March 12, 1918. 
Mallard, Ellis, Pvt., to Provisional Battalion, Camp Sevier, 

S. C, May 1, 1918. 
Moody, John N., Pvt., lo Provisional Battalion, Camp Sevier, 

S. C, May 1, 1918. 
Nelson, John C, Pvt., to Provisional Battalion, Camp Se- 
vier, S. C, May 1, 1918. 
Fhelan, Lesley H., Pvt., to 35th Engineers, March 12, 1918. 
Presson Charles W., Pvt., lo 41st Engineers, Jan. 30, 1918. 
Rainey, James W., Pvt., to 19th Engineers, March 12, 1918. 
Seward, Irving W., Pvt., to 19lh Engineers, March 12, 1913. 
Smith Amace E., Pvt., to Provisional Battalion, Camp Sevier. 

S. C, May 1, 1918. 
Sparks, George, Pvt., to Provisional Battalion. Camo Sevier, 

S. C, May 1, 1918. 
Wiggs, Norman S., Sgt., to Saumur Artillery School, July 

20, 1918. 

Wills, Ridley, Isl Sgt., Training Camp, Leon Springs, Texas. 

DROPPED 
RiDiNCER, James, Pvt March 30, 1918 

WlLLOUGHBY, HERMAN, Pvt Sept. 17, 1918 

Woods, Clyde M., PvI May 14, 1918 

MEN SENT TO TRAINING SCHOOLS 

Wills, Ridley, 1st Sgt To Leon Springs. Texas 

Carman, William C, Sgt To Leon Springs, Texas 

WiGGS, Norman S., Sgt.. .To Saumur Artillery School, France 

Evans, George P., Isl Sgt To Saumur Artillery School 

Hunter, Clyde H., Sgt Com. from ranks, Nov. 3, 1917 

DIED 

Barnes, Raymond E., Pvt Dec. 6, 1917 

Clayton, Grover C, Pvt Dec. 12, 1917 

Hart, Porter, Pvt Dec. 20, 1917 

Ferreter, James, Pvt July 30, 1918 



ROSTER OF BATTERY E 
I 1 4th Field Artillery 

December, 1918 

Allen, Ezra F., Pvt Route 2, Manning, S. C. 

Anderson, Carlton, Sgt Covv'an, Tenn. 

Anderson, Edgar B., Corp Franklin, Tenn. 

Bailey, Ovis L., Pvt 513 Hudson Si., Nashville, Tenn. 

Baker, Ray, Pvt 1314 Fatherland Si., Nashville, Tenn. 

Bales, Elmer H., Pvl Route 3, Straw Plains, Tenn. 

Barnard, George, Pvt Route 1, Lost Creek, Tenn. 

Bates, Albert E., Pvl Riverside, Tenn. 

Beasley, Ezra C, Pvt. Ic Nashville, Tenn. 

Benedict, Louis, Corp 908 N. 2nd St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Bennett, Curtis A., Pvl. Ic. .1414 Clay St., Nashville, Tenn. 
Benton, T H., Pvl. Ic. . .761 Woodland St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Bess, Lewis H., Pvt Glen Pool, Okla. 

Binkley, Frederic M., Pvt Nashville, Tenn. 

Blackwell, Samuel H., Corp Chapel Hill, Tenn. 

BOLLING, R. E., Sgt 1511 I-hwkms St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Boman, Robt. F., Pvt Hanging Limb, Tenn. 

Bozeman, H. D., Corp.. . .317 7th A e., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Brabham, Charlie C, Pvt New Brockton, Ala. 

Bracey, Amos C, Pvt. lc...223 Spring St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Brannon, Jas. H., Pvt 210 Trutlan St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Brown, Dewey B., Pvt. Ic. . .516 S. 1 1th St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Buchanan, Holland G., Pvt. Ic Franklin, Tenn. 

Buck, Oscar, Pvt. Ic... 92 1 Lischey Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
BuRRUS, G. T., Pvt.. .Maxey Lane, Route 10, Nashville, Tenn. 

Burton, Robert E., Pvt Nashville, Tenn. 

Cage, Wheeler T., Pvt Gallatin, Tenn. 

Carr, George M., Pvt. Ic California, Ky. 

Carter, Pitman, Pvl Versailles, Ky. 

Carter, Theodore, Pvt Paris, Ky. 

Chadwell, Andy J., Pvl Hoop, Tenn. 

Cleghorne, Wm. B., Pvl 211 Mark St., N-.shville, Tenn. 

Cobbs, William H., Pvt Nashville, Tenn. 

CoLViN, Arthur F., Pvt Loami, III. 

Copeland, Wm. M., Pvt. Ic. . .931 3rd Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Cowan, Sam K., PvI Franklin, Tenn. 

Crane, Jos. F., Pvt Summerlown, Tenn. 

Crumrine, Robt. L., Pvl 21 Filn-.ore St., Nashville, Tenn. 

CuLLOM, Joe, Pvt. 1 4900 Elkins Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Cummins, Charles, Pvt Georgetown, Ky. 

CuRLEY, Eugene D., Pvl. Ic. . .826 Main S'., Nashville, Tenn. 

Dalton, Simeon, PvI Idol, Tenn. 

Daniel, Leon, Cook Hi!lsboro, Tenn. 

Darby, Allen M., Pvt Ludlow, Ky. 

Davis, Wm. G., Pvt. Ic. . . .4500 Colo. Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
Deacon, Edw., Jr., Pvt.. . .315 E. Brd. St., Burlington, N. J. 

DoRN, Henry C, Pvt St. Peter, 111. 

Dudhope, Wesley W., Pvt Atwater, III. 

Duncan, Chas. F., Bglr Aetna, Tenn. 

DuNLop, Robert, Pvt Divemon, III. 

Dye, Howard, Sgt 12 E. Sld^ Flat-, Nashville, Tenn. 

Earle, L. H., Pvt. Ic 1709 Nassau St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Ehrhart, Ollie T., Sgt 830 Meridian St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Elkins. Robert, Pvl.... 423 Humphreys St., Nashville, Tenn. 
Emerson, Lucian P., Corp.. . .406 East End Av., Lalonia, Ky. 



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EwELL, Leighton, St' Manchester, Tenn. 

EZELL, L. M., Corp 1C04 3rd Ave.. S., Nashville. Tenn. 

Farrell, F. C, IstSgl.. . .54 Washingon St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Ferguson, Corbit J.. Pvl Lillle Lot, Tenn. 

Fly, Clarence A., Sgl....4508 Neb. Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
Frank, Irvine H., Pvt.. . .205 19ih Axe., S., Nashville, Tenn. 
Georcantas, Jas. a., PvI.. . .69 Charles St., Dorchester, Mass. 

Gilbert, Dee P., Pvl McEwen, Tenn. 

Gilbert, William W., Pvt Ic McEwen, Tenn. 

Golden, John S., Pvt Lake Cicoti, Ind. 

Goodrich, Steve D., Hs'r Nolensville, Tenn. 

GoURLEY, W. H., Corp.. . .310 7th Ave.. N., Nashville, Tenn. 
Griggs, Geo. E., PvL 1c...909 Monro? St., Nashville, Tenn. 
Griggs, Albert L., Sdlr. . 1810 7th Ave , N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Green, D. L., Pvt. Ic 1307 Forrest Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Griffin, E. M., Pvt. Ic. .210!, 2 6th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Hannah, William N., Pvt. 1; Nashville, Tenn. 

Harbin, Grover C, Pvl Winfield, Ala. 

Hart, D. B., M. Sgt 918 16tS Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Helvey, Richard N., Pvt Chapel Hill, Tenn. 

Hendrix, Harris L., Pvt M:Ew?n, Tenn. 

Higginbotham. W. L., Corp 

1701 Porlage Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

High, Albert, Pvl. Ic. .1305 Ashwood Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

HuffakER, Emirt R., Pvt Kodak, Tenn. 

HussEY, Paul E., Pvt. Ic Palmyra, Tenn. 

Johns, Hill E., Corp. . .1000 Pennock Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Jones, John W., Pvt. Ic Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

Jones, R. C, Pvl. Ic. .Franklin Pd. Route 2, Nashville, Tenn. 

Jones, Robt. D., Pvt Clarksville, Tenn. 

Jones, Wm. P., Corp Route 3, Franklin, Tenn. 

Kernell, Thos. J.. Pvl Route 2, Nashville, Tenn. 

KiMBRO, Wm., Pvt !707 9tS Ay- . N., Nashville, Tenn. 

King, Henry O., Mech Bellevue, Tenn. 

Lamb, Romie J., Corp 2126 Blair Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Langford, Hardy C, Corp Cottonlown, Tenn. 

Lampkin, Jas. E., Hs'r. . . . 1039 2d Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Litchford, David F., Corp Watertown, Tenn. 

Luton, Luther L., Corp East Nashville, Tenn. 

McClanahan, Karl B., Pvt. Ic Brentwood, Tenn. 

McCutcheon, Regie R., Pvt Rembert, S. C. 

McGlNNIS, D. F., Corp 237 Fos'er Ave.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Miller, Hiram P., Pvt Plymouth, Pa. 

MizELL, Robert O., Stabh Sjt Franklin, Tenn. 

Moore, Geo. L.. Pvt Lavergne, Tenn. 

Moran, Fred J., Pvt 215 Fosl-r St., Nashville, Tenn. 

MoRAN, Lawrence, Pvt Edenwald, Tenn. 

Murphy, Carl L., Pvt. Ic Ca'-al Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Newman, Lavator, Pvt Sevierville, Tenn. 

Newsom, John P., Pvl Scotland Neck. S. C. 

Nolan, Hardy, Pvl 245 Washington St., Eufla, Ala. 

Nobles, Fred, Pvt Columbus, Ala. 

Oakley, Q. L., Corp 709 Gallatin Rd., Nashville, Tenn. 

Olofsson, O. F., Sgt.... 121 Boiling Blvd., Nashville, Tenn. 

O'QuiNN, Berry, Pvt Walterborough, S. C. 

Patrick, James S., Pvt 612 N. 2d St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Patterson, C. M., Sup. Sgt.. . .Y. M. C. A., Nashville, Tenn. 
Perry, Wm. W., Pvt Wedowee, Ala. 



Picton, W. L., Sgl 706 16lh Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

PiNCUS, Sol S., P\t. Ic Nashville, Tenn. 

Pope, John C, Sgt Springfield, Tenn. 

Redmond, Fred, Pvl Sarosota, Fla. 

Reeves, Edward W., Corp Pulaski, Tenn. 

Reynolds, C. E., Pvt.. ..4701 Nevada Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Richardson, Bethel J., Pvt Summertown, Tenn. 

RlKANSRUD, Thorlief 1., Pvt Kanawha, Iowa 

Robertson, Campbell, Pvt Jackson, Tenn. 

Roller, B. A., Pvt.lc, 1401 Demonbreun St., Nashville Tenn. 

RoOP, HemrY, Pvl Powell Station, Tenn. 

SCHULMAN, S., Pvl. lc....903 8lh Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Sesler, Anthony M., P t. Ic Cheap Hill, Tenn. 

Sherman, Ch/'Rlie. Pv: Lafayette, Ala. 

Singleton, Oscar, Pvt Idol, Tenn. 

Smartt, Fred F., Pvt Mt. Juliet, Tenn. 

Smartt, James C, Pvl. 1 c Mt. Juliet, Tenn. 

Smith, Lee W., Mech Castallian Springs, Tenn. 

Smothers, Fount T., Pvl Linden, Tenn. 

Sparkman, R. H., Pvl., Al Kenilworth Apis., Nashville, Tenn. 
Springer, E. G., PvI. Ic. . .310 7lh Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Strange, Walter L., Pvt Dandridge, Tenn. 

Stuckey, W. C, Corp 53 Bridge Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Tatom, Liston, Cook Van Leer, Tenn. 

Taylor, Jonas, Hs'r 1010 N. 1st St.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Taylor, Wm. O., Pvt.... 1 16 28th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Thomas, Robt. E., Corp Nashville, Tenn. 

Thomson, Matt N., Sgt.. . .233 Faihlnd. St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Truett, Henry B., Pvt. Ic Lyles, Tenn. 

Tsukatos, Geo. D., Pvt 506 Main St., Strodsburg, Pa. 

Turrentine, Frank T., Pvt. Ic Shelbyville, Tenn. 

Vance, Wm. J., Bglr Y. M. C. A., Nashville, Tenn. 

WaDLEY, J. A., Pvt 2145 Capers Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Waggoner, B. P., Pvl. Ic. 607 18lh Ave., N., Nashville. Tenn. 

Wall, John P., Pvl Toulminville, Ala. 

Walker, G. E., Cook....50S 3d Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Waller, James V., Pvt. Ic Washburn, Tenn. 

Ward, Wm. P., Pvl Route 6, Nashville, Tenn. 

Washington, Wm. L., Corp Pegram Station, Tenn. 

Watson, P. L., Pvt. Ic. . .2300 Caldwell St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Webb, C. B., Cook 7 Radnor Terrace, Nashville. Tenn. 

Wheeler, D. B., Pvl.. . .4-B Windsor Apis., Nashville, Tenn. 

WiLEMAN, Wade H.. PvI Hillsboro, Tenn. 

Williams, J. J., Corp.. . . 102', , 4th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn, 

Williams, Luther C, Pvl White Pine, Tenn. 

Williams, R. G., PvL ... Woodbine Branch, Nashville, Tenn. 

Winters, E. M., Pvl Gallalin Rd.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Winters, Geo. N., Pvt Gallatin Rd„ Nashville, Tenn. 

Wood, Carrol P., Pvt. Ic Nashville, Tenn. 

Wright, Harry W., Pvt Nashville, Tenn. 

Yenowine. S. R., Ch. Mech., B. St, Sunset Park, Nashville, 
Tenn. 

Attached 

Crocker, Rov C, Pvt Address Unknown 

Gallican, Fred M., PvI Address Unknown 

HoLLID.ikY, Mark L., Pvl Address Unknown 

Nelson, Wallace C, Corp Address Unknown 

Randolph, George T.. Pvt. Ic Address Unknown 

Smith, D. F.. Pvt Ml. Pleasant, Tenn. 



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MEN WOUNDED AND GASSED 

No officers wounded or gassed. 

Lovelace, Alcy M Wounded and gassed, Oct. 15, 1913 

Po,PE, John C Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

HucciNs, Hooper P Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Brown, Dewey B Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Brown, Ralph E Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Smith, Roger L Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

EsTES, Fred D Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Church, Robert N Gassed. Oct. 15, 1918 

Bolinc, Wayne F Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Nelson, Wallace C Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Ehrhart, Ollie T Gassed. Oct. 15, 1918 

Bradley, Cullie W Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Bennett, Wm. M Wounded and gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

HlGGINBOTHAM, WALLACE L Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Langham, Samuel B Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Mitchell, John J Gassed, Oct. 15. 1918 

Randolph. George T Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

Melliott, John M., Jr Gassed, Oct. 15, 1918 

KILLED 
Patterson, Joseph Hercules, Jr., Oct. 15, 1918, Waverly, 
Tenn. Killed in action at Les Eparges, France, while 
standing gun guard on night of Oct. 14th and early morning 
of Oct. 15. 1918. Death result of shell fire from enemy. 
Father, Joseph Hercules Patterson. Sr.. Waverly. Tenn. 

LIST OF OFFICERS WHO HAVE LEFT REGIMENT 
Gaines, John W., Jr., 2d Lieut. . . .Transferred Sept. 7. 1917 

Baily, Broadus L., 2d Lieut Transferred Oct. 2, 1917 

Berg, Henry. 2d Lieut Transferred Sept. 19. 1917 

Chapman, Rolling F., 2d Lieut. . .Transferred Dec. 14. 1917 

Harr. Lee B., Isl Lieut Transferred Aug. 25, 1918 

Bruce, William P., Jr., 2d Lieut. .Transferred May 25, 1918 

LIST OF MEN WHO HAVE LEFT REGIMENT 

Kelley, Pruett a Transferred Aug. 18, 1917 

Polk, Horace T Transferred Aug. 8, 1917 

Wilson. Harry A Transferred Aug. 8, 1917 

Crouch, Lawrence Transferred Sept. 1, 1917 

Gardner, William H Transferred Sept. 24, 1917 

Irwin, Frank N Transferred Sept. 24, 1917 

Bond, Robert D Transferred Oct. 22, 1917 

McLean, Frank R Transferred Sept. 24, 1917 

Williams, James O Transferred Sept. 24, 1917 

Baugus, William F Transferred Sept. 24, 1917 

Diamond, John M Transferred Sept. 24, 1917 

Moore, William A Transferred Oct. 17, 1917 

Rogers, Benjamin D Transferred Oct. 4, 1917 

Walsh, James F Transferred Oct. 9, 1917 

Williams, Walter V Transferred Sept. 24, 1917 

Faircloth. Edward C. Jr Transferred Nov. 27. 1917 

Bracklin, Thomas T Transferred Nov. 30, 1917 

Gooch, George, Jr Transferred Nov. 30, 1917 

Lebeck, Clarence R Transferred Nov. 7, 1917 

Wherry, Priestly E Transferred Dec. 4, 1917 

Arnold, Thomas E Transferred Nov. 30, 1917 

Hicks, Harry E Transferred Dec. 3, 1917 

LovELL, William L Transferred Dec. 2, 1917 



LoGUE, Robert G Died Nov. 21, 1917 

Cowan, Robert E Transferred Jan. 29, 1918 

Zanone. Joseph Transferred Feb. 8. 1918 

Parish. Charles S Transferred Feb. 11. 1918 

Young, Harold G Transferred Dec. 30, 1917 

Bishop. Eugene E Transferred Jan. 3. 1918 

VuiLLET. August E Transferred Jan. 8. 1913 

Gooch, Hooper L Transferred Feb. 11, 1918 

Cooper, Virgil Transferred Feb 11, 1918 

Davis, Oliver J Transferred Jan. 23, 1918 

Butner, Rollie F Transferred Jan. 28, 1918 

Harding, Orman W Transferred Jan. 3. 1918 

Shockley, Jesse L Transferred Jan. 28, 1918 

Palmer, Maurice Deserted Feb. 16. 1918 

Underwood, William Transferred April 11, 1913 

Jones. Charles F Transferred Feb. 4. 1913 

Jones. James M.. Jr Transferred April 21. 1918 

Jones. Gilbert Discharged March 15. 1913 

Sain. Wade Discharged March 15. 1918 

G.ATLIN. Joshua O Died April 20, 1918 

OsTEEN, Lawson L Transferred May 1, 1918 

BiNKLEY, Warren J Transferred Feb. 28, 1918 

Tyler, Rupert F Discharged May 8, 1918 

Harbin, McPherson Deserted May 19, 1918 

Joseph, Clay E Transferred May 13, 1918 

GL.AZE, John W Transferred May 13. 1918 

Klyce. Paul C Transferred July 1. 1918 

Paschall. William D Transferred May 13. 1918 

Tennison. Alonzo M Transferred May 13, 1918 

Hodge, Robert D Transferred May 18, 1913 

Lee, Bert A Transferred May 18, 1918 

White, Carl E Transferred May 13, 1918 

BuRRUS, Leslie C Transferred Sept. 18, 1918 

Smith, Coy R Transferred Oct. 15, 1918 

LIST OF MEN SENT TO TRAINING SCHOOLS 
Joseph, Clay E. Tennison. Alonzo M. 

Sharpe. William P. Glaze, John W. 

Paschall, Williaam D. Klyce, Paul C. 

Bruce. William P., Jr. Ewell, Leichton 

Keith, Samuel J. 

MEN WHO HAVE DIED OF DISEASE SINCE 
REGIMENT WAS FORMED 

LoGUE, Robert G., Pvt Nov. 21, 1917 

Gatlin, Joshua O., PvI April 20, 1918 

William R. Cleghorne, PvI Feb. 15, 1919 

Sherman, Charlie, Pvt Feb. 17, 1919 

Moore, George L., Pvt Feb. 18, 1919 

Anderson, Edgar B., Corp Feb. 20, 1919 

MEN WHO HAVE BEEN PROMOTED FROM 
THE RANKS 
Glaze, John W., Sgt. 
Nelson, Chas, Corp. 
Polk. Horace. Bn. Sgt. Major. 
Sharpe, Percy, Corp. 



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FaIRCLOTH, Edward C, Jr.. from Private lo Second LieulenanI, 

Nov. 27, 1917. 
EvERS, Frank B., from Sergeant to Second Lieutenant, Nov. 

27, 1917. 
Evans, T. Joseph, Isl Sgt., Leon Springs Course. 
Paschall, Douglas. Sgt. 
Bruce, W. B., Sgi. 
Bell, Robert H., Sgt. 
Tennyson, Lon, Pvt. 

ROSTER OF BATTERY F 
1 14th Field Artillery 

December 28. 1918 

Allen. Gentry, Corp Franklin. Tenn. 

Anderson. Robert G.. Pvt Franklin. Tenn. 

Anderson, Willie D., Pit Sparta, Tenn. 

Armes, Arthur T., Pvt Nashville, Tenn. 

Atkinson, Everett, Pvt. Ic Columbia, Tenn. 

DaILEY, Grover N., Pvt Lawrenceburg. Tenn. 

Bailey, Robert, Pvt. Ic Lavi^renceburg, Tenn. 

Bailey, Robert L., Pvt. Ic Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Bailev, William G., Pvt Birmingham. Ala. 

Baker, Claude E. N.. Pvt Springfield. 111. 

Barr, William J.. Pvt Glenfield, Allegheny, Pa. 

Battle, Carl M., Sgt Lawrenceburg. Tenn. 

Batts, John E., Mech Columbia, Tenn. 

Bearden, Claude P., Corp Franklin. Tenn. 

Belew, Clyde W., Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Best, Newton G., Pvt. Ic Creslview, Tenn. 

BiLLiNGTON. Robert L., Sdlr Match. Tenn. 

Black, William A.. Pvt Huntington. Pa. 

Blocker, Basil O., Corp Columbia, Tenn. 

Blocker, Everett, Corp Columbia. Tenn. 

BoLIN. Burnard. Pvt. Ic Versailles, Ky. 

Booker, Murphy, Corp Santa Fe, Tenn. 

Blocker, Everett, Corp Columbia, T enn. 

BoWLiN, Avery, Pvt Franklin, Tenn. 

Bradford, James A., Pvt Bon Aqua, Tenn. 

Brewer, Andrew E.. Pvt Carters Creek, Tenn. 

Brewer, Ed G.. Pvt. Ic Lawrenceburg. Tenn. 

Bright. Harry E., Pvt Elk, W. Va. 

Brinen, Vernon R., Pvt Mills Potter, Pa. 

Brown, Nathan L., Corp Columbia, Tenn. 

Bryant, Jack, Pvt. Ic Summerville, Tenn. 

Buchanan, Everett H., Bglr Franklin, Tenn. 

Buchanan, Stokes, Pvt. Ic Franklin, Tenn. 

Burgess, Blant, Pvt St. Joe. Tenn. 

Burke. Charles L., Pvt Dyersburg, Tenn. 

Byrne, Michael F. J., Pvt. Ic Nashville, Tenn. 

Caldwell, Will B., Pvt Thompson Station, Tenn. 

Callahan. Robert C. Pvt Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. 

CalTON, Franklin R., Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Campbell, James S., Corp Franklin, Tenn. 

Campbell, Marshall T., Corp Sullivan. III. 

Cancelliare. Domenico. Pvt Verdun. 111. 

Canfield. Albert B., Pvt Curran, 111. 

Capella, Lee, Pvt Benld, 111. 

Cason, William A., Sgt Nashville, Tenn. 



Church, Parley, Pvt Williamsport, Tenn. 

Clayton, Lee, Pvt. Ic Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Cocke, Francis, Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

CoFFMAN, James A., Pvt Maynardsville, Tenn. 

Coleman, Albert, Pvt Leoma, Tenn. 

Conway, Lee, Sgt Leoma, Tenn. 

Covey, Roy M., Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Craft, Howard B., Pvt Wayland Springs, Tenn. 

Cranford, Joe A., Corp Columbia, Tenn. 

Crawford, Vernon D., Pvt. Ic Appleion, Tenn. 

Crows, Keskey, Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Cunningham, Barney, PvI Coitontown, Tenn. 

Dailey, Henry B., Pvt Centreville, Ala. 

Dale. Robert F.. Sgt Marshall. Texas 

DoDD. Leslie W., Pvt Crestview. Tenn. 

Dooley, Lee, Bglr Columbia, Tenn. 

Durham, Jonah G., Sgt Centreville, Tenn. 

EsKEW, Joe, Pvt. Ic Williamsport, Tenn. 

Forehand, John I., Pvt. Ic Prlmm, Tenn. 

Forehand. Leroy, Pvt Primm. Tenn. 

Fox, Charles, Pvt. I c Boston, Tenn. 

Fox, Leslie, Corp Boston, Tenn. 

Fox, Thomas C, Corp Boston, Tenn. 

Goodwin, Everett, Corp Columbia, Tenn. 

Green, Bryan, Pvt Primm, Tenn. 

Green, James A., Pvt Franklin, Tenn. 

Grinnell, LoNlE, Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Hanson, Lucius F., Pvt Loretto, Tenn. 

Harmon, Thomas I., Pvt Match, Tenn. 

Harvey, Leroy, Pvt Aran, Fla. 

Hayes, Hardy V., Pvt. 1 c Elhridge, Tenn. 

Head, Walter E., Corp Pulaski, Tenn. 

HelmICK, John I., P\t. Ic Elhridge, Tenn. 

HOLCOMB, Hal, Pvt. Ic Spring Hill. Tenn. 

Holcomb, Leslie, Pvt Spring Hill, Tenn. 

Hood. Fred. Pvt Timmons. Tenn. 

Hughes, Charles R., PvI Danville, Ala. 

Hughes, Howard G., Corp Columbia, Tenn. 

Jarrett, Wesley K., Cook Match, Tenn. 

Jeannette. Percy, Corp Thompson Station, Tenn. 

Johnson, Charles G., Pvt Pittsburg, Allegheny, Pa. 

Johnson, Earl, Pvt Columbia, Tenn. 

Johnston, Owen. Sgt Franklin. Tenn. 

Kabat, William, Pvt Chicago, 111. 

Kearns, William P., Pvt Moffat, N. C. 

Kelso, Elbert H., Pvt. Ic Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Kirk. William H., Pvt. Ic Nulley, N. J. 

KoKlNSKEE. Harry. Pvt Pittsburg. Tenn. 

LaphaM. Arthur L., Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Lavender, William, Pvt Match, Tenn. 

Laws, Thomas G., Pvt Henryville, Tenn. 

Locke, Willie G., Pvt Franklin, Tenn. 

Looney, William H., Pvt Rockvale. Tenn. 

Lampkins, Baxter. Pvt Green Hill. Ala. 

Mailey. Cornelius J.. Pvt Hudson, N. J. 

Marston. Wendell H.. Corp Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Marston, Taylor, Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Mathis, Ruth, Pvt. Ic Loretto, Tenn. 



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Matthews, Brown, Corp Columbia, Tenn. 

McClain, Felix M., Pv: Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. 

McLean, Joe Y., Pvt Lawrenceburg. Tenn. 

Meek, Abe L., Sgt Columbia, Tenn. 

Melton, Rubie, Pvl Andersonville, Tenn. 

Miller, Clarence, Pvl Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Miller, Clayton, Pvt Powell Station, Tenn. 

MoREHEAD, Ovid R., Pvt. Ic Columbia, Tenn. 

Mouchas, John, Pvt Haverhill, Mass. 

Mullins, Chris L., Pvl Leoma, Tenn. 

Mullins, Charles C, Pvt. Ic Leoma, Tenn. 

Nevils, John M., Pvt. Ic Thompson Station, Tenn. 

Nixon, Canon C, Pvt. Ic Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

NORTHINGTON, JOHN E., S;l Clarksville, Tenn. 

Odil, Earl, Pvt Spring Hill, Tenn. 

Overton, John J., Pvt Columbia, Tenn. 

Patterson, George R., Pvt. Ic Palmyra, Tenn. 

Paul, Arthur L., Pvt. Ic Columbia, Tenn. 

Peay, Joe R., Hs'r Match, Tenn. 

Pennington, Leachman, Pvt. Ic Henryville, Tenn. 

Pinkston, William C, Corp Franklin, Tenn. 

Po.^G, Basil B., Pvt Napier, Tenn. 

Poag, William J., Pvt. 1 c Napier, Tenn. 

Poteete, Neil R., Pvt. Ic Thompson Station, Tenn. 

Powell, Homer G., Pvt Pleasant Point, Tenn. 

Reckley, Willie W., HsV Good Springs, Tenn. 

Reddick, Vernon, Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Reynolds, Henry S., Pvt Franklin, Tenn. 

Reynolds, Richard, Corp Franklin, Tenn. 

Rhody, Alvin, Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Riley, Albert, Pvt. Ic Williamsport, Tenn. 

Ring, Brents, Pvt. 1 c Match, Tenn. 

Ring, Eldridge C, Cook Match, Tenn. 

RlpPEY, John T., Pvt Leoma, Tenn. 

Roberts, Walter L., Pvl. Ic Nolensville, Tenn. 

Rogers, Samuel, Pvl. Ic Columbia, Tenn. 

RoYSE, Belford, Pvt Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Rudolph, Will S., Corp Clarksville, Tenn. 

Rups, Robert W., Sgt Ml. Pleasant, Tenn. 

Sadler, Edward C, Pvt. Ic Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Safford, Fred L., Pvt Tiosa, Ind. 

Shannon, Eldred V.. Pvl Pleasant Point, Tenn. 

Sherley, Melvin F., Pvt. Ic Columbia, Tenn. 

Sherley, Earnest G., Mech Columbia, Tenn. 

Smith, Charles F., Corp Franklin, Tenn. 

Smith, Hugh, Pvt. Ic Columbia, Tenn. 

Smith, Isaac B., Mech Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Smith, Luther M., Pvl. Ic Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Springer, Loney C, Pvl Leoma, Tenn. 

Stanley, Hubert, Pvt. Ic Franklin, Tenn. 

Stern, Leslie B., Bglr Franklin, Tenn. 

Sweeney, Bernard, Pvt. Ic Franklin, Tenn. 

Sweeney, Paul, Pvt Address Unknown 

Thompson, Harry, Cook Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Thornton, Salmon, Cook Leipers Fork, Tenn. 

Tidwell, Harvey R., Pvt Lanelte, Ala. 

TiDWELL, Walter, Pvt. Ic Columbia, Tenn. 

ToMLiN, James, Pvt. Ic Franklin, Tenn. 



Tomlin, Leslie B., Corp Franklin, Tenn. 

Usher, Ogden C, Ch. Mech Crestview, Tenn. 

Wade, George W., Pvl Talladega, Ala. 

Walding, Doctor, Pvt Cottonwood, Ala. 

Waller, George, Pvt Savannah, Ga. 

Wasson, Joe L., Pvt. Ic Ethridgc, Tenn. 

Watson, Clarence, Sgt Columbia, Tenn. 

Watson, Eldin E., Sgt Columbia, Tenn. 

Watson, Sim, Hs'r Spring Hill, Tenn. 

Wessinger, Joe T., Pvt Fairfax, Ala. 

White, William H., PvI Plasant Point, Tenn. 

Wiley, Andrew P., Sgt Franklin, Tenn. 

Willerford, Clyde M., Sgt Address Unknown. 

Williams, Fleming C, Pvt. Ic Franklin, Tenn. 

Williams, Marvin H., Pvt. Ic ThompEon Station, Tenn. 

Wilson, Otto M., Pvt Appleton, Tenn. 

Wiltshire, Raymund M., Corp Franklin, Tenn. 

Wright, John L., Pvl Codesville, S. C. 

Young, William. Pvl Franklin, Tenn. 

Shinholster, Littleton L., Pvl Ashford, Ala. 

LIST OF MEN OF THIS ORGANIZATION 
WOUNDED 

Campbell, Clyde, Pvt. Ic, Franklin, Tenn. Wounded in 
action in the Argonne. Oct. 5, 1918. 

Hughes, Raymond, Pvt., Darks Mill, Tenn. Wounded acci- 
dentally in the Argonne, Sept. 30, 1918. 

Green, William H., Cook, Franklin Tenn., Route 4. Wounded 
in action in the Argonne, Oct. 2, 1918. 

Sweeney, Paul, Horseshoer, Leipers Fork. Tenn. Wounded 
accidentally at Jeandelize, Oct. 8, 1918. 

Tidwell, Harvey E., Pvt., Lunetia, Ala. Wounded acci- 
dentally at Arrancy, Dec. 10, 1918. 

ToLLEY', Joe W., Sgt. Wounded in action at Combres, Nov. 
II, 1918. 
No officers and men in this organization were gassed, all men 

having been instructed that to be gassed was a court-martial 

offense. 

THE FOLLOWING MEN DIED OR WERE KILLED 

Anderson, James D., Pvt. Ic. Killed in action in the Ar- 
gonne, Oct. 5, 1918. Next of kin, Mrs. Mary McNeal 
(mother), Thompson Station. Tenn., Route No. 2. 

Collins, Charles G., Corp. Killed in action in the Argonne, 
Oct. 5, 1918. Next of kin, S. P. Collins (father), Lynn- 
ville, Tenn., Route No. 4. 

Butler, Fletcher W., Pvt. Died in base hospital. Camp 
Sevier, S. C, Dec. 29. 1917. Next of kin, , Apple- 
ton, Tenn. 

Garretson, Teddy, Pvt. Died in base hospital. Camp Sevier, 
S. C, Dec. 5, 1917. Next of kin, Mrs. Garretson (mother), 
Leoma, Tenn. 

HoLMAN, Wilson D., Cook. Died in Camp Hospital No. 15, 
Guer, France, Aug. 15, 1918. Next of kin. Rube Holman 
(father), Columbia, Tenn. 

Patterson, M^^lcolm C Pvt. Died in base hospital. Camp 
hospital. Camp Sevier, S. C, Oct. II, 1917. Next of kin, 
Jim Patterson (father), Henryville, Tenn. 



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Warren, John W., Pvt. Died In base hospital. Camp Sevier, 
S. C, Dec. 27, 1917. Next of kin, Jim Warren (father). 
Linden, Tenn. 

OFFICERS AND MEN FORMERLY IN THIS OR- 

G.'XNIZATION WHO HAVE PERMANENTLY 

LEFT THE REGIMENT 

DuNLOP, Joe P., Jr., 1st Lieut., Clarksville, Tenn. Resigned 
on account of sickness. 

Lewis, John L., Isl Lieut., Carlisle, Pa. Assigned to duty In 
the United Stales as instructor, August, 1918. 

Harr, Lee B., 1st Lieut., Johnson City, Tenn. Assigned to 
duty in the United Slates as Instructor, August, 1918. 

Dovle, Chas F., 1st Lieut.. New York, N. Y. Transferred as 
balloon observer, August, 1918. 

Cant, Minter, 2d Lieut., Columbia, Tenn. Transferred Feb. 
I, 1918, to 120th Infantry. 

Warfield, Francis B., 2d Lieut., Franklin, Tenn. Trans- 
ferred Aug. 1, 1917, to 105th Engineers. 

Gaines, John Wesley, 2d Lieut., Nashville, Tenn. Assigned 
to duty in the United Stales as instruc:or. August, 1918. 

East, John H., 1st Lieut. Transferred to the aviation, 1917. 

HoRSELY, John, 2d Lieut., Bangor, Me. Transferred to Camp 
Lee, September, 1917. 

Chapman, Rolling G., 2d Lieut., New York, N. Y. Trans- 
ferred to Camp Lee, December, 1917. 

Neeley, James H., 2d Lieut., Memphis, Tenn. Resigned, 
1918. 

Polk, Horace T., 2d Lieut., Nashville, Tenn. Transferred 

to Brigade Headquarters, November, 1918. 
Waterbury, Stephen W., 2d Lieut., Elizabeth, N. Y. As- 
signed to duty in the United States as instructor, August, 

1918. 
Myers, John W., 2d Lieut., Indianapolis, Ind. Transferred, 

1918. 
Aden, Arthur C, Pvt., Memphis, Tenn. Transferred to 

Casual Battalion of Unfits, Camp Sevier, S. C, May 16, 

1918. 
Allen, Lee, Pvt., Columbia, Tenn. Transferred to Casual 

Battalion of Unfits, Camp Sevier, S. C, April 30, 1918. 
Bailey, Charles A., Pvt. Ic, Lawrenceburg. Tenn., Route 

No. 2. Transferred to S. O. S. Hospital, France, Sept. 

25, 1918. 
Bailey, Lloyd, Pvt., Raleigh, Wyo. Disappeared on the night 

of Sept. 16, 1918, carried as A. W. O. L. and dropped. 
Beard, John F., Pvt., Boston, Tenn., Route No. 1. Trans- 
ferred to S. O. S. Hospital, France, Oct. 17, 1918. 
Bradley, Ralph B., Pvt., Cincinnati, Ohio. Transferred to 

S. O. S. Hospital, France, Sept. 22, 1918. 
Buckner, Edward R., Sgt., Thompson Station, Tenn., Route 

No. 2. Transferred to School of Field Artillery Saumur, 

France, July 29, 1918. 
Campbell, Clyde, Pvt. Ic, Franklin. Tenn., Route No. 7. 

Transferred to S. O. S. Hospital, France, October 7, 1918. 
C.4RTER, James M., Pvt., Franklin, Tenn. Transferred to 19th 

Engineers, March 10, 1918. 
Chumley, James H., Pvt. Ic, Columbia, Tenn. Honorably 

discharged. May 18, 1918. 



Conway, Bryan, Pvt., Leoma, Tenn. Transferred to S. O. S. 

Hospital, France, Sept. 22, 1918. 
Douglas, Lester A., Pvt., Macon, Ga. Transferred to 

S. O. S. Hospital, France, Oct. 20, 1918. 
Ducan, Lawrence C, Pvt., Primm, Tenn., Route No. 2. 

Transferred to Q. M. C. N. A., Bakery Company No. 

308, April 29, 1918. 
Ellis, Alvie M., Pvt., Moulton Ala. Transferred to S. O. S. 

Hospital, France, Sept. 22, 1918. 
Farr, Arthur H., Pvt., Franklin, Tenn. Honorably dis- 
charged Jan. 5, 1918. 
Finnell, Arthur J., Pvt., Columbia, Tenn. Transferred to 

105th Military Police, Feb. 5, 1918. 
Garner, Teddy D., Pvt., Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Transferred 

to Replacement Division, May 1, 1918. 
Gentry, William H., Pvt., Franklin, Tenn., Route No. 5. 

Transferred to Casual Battalion of Unfits, April 26, 1918. 
Gentry, Syphert H., Pvt., Franklin, Tenn., Route No. 1. 

Transferred to Medical Depot, Base Hospital, Camp Sevier, 

S. C, Feb. 28, 1918. 
Glaser, Louis A., Pvt., Pittsburg, Pa. Transferred to S. O. S. 

Hospital, France, Sept. 25, 1918. 
Green, William H., Cook, Franklin, Tenn., Route No. 4. 

Transferred to S. O. S. Hospital, France, October 4, 1918. 
Hannah, ArlEY, Pvt., Leoma, Tenn. Transferred to S. O. S. 

Hospital, France, Sept. 14, 1918. 
Hooper, James L., Pvt., Gallatin, Tenn. Transferred to 105th 

Military Police, Feb. 4, 1918. 
Howell, George T., Pvt,, Memphis, Tenn. Transferred to 

Casual Battalion of Unfits, April 26, 1918. 
Howlett, James H., Sgt., Franklin, Tenn. Transferred to 

Casual Battalion of Unfits, May 13, 1918. 
Hughes, Raymond, Pvt., Darks Mills, Tenn. Transferred to 

S. O. S. Hospital, France, October 4, 1918. 
Litrel, Nolen N., Pvt., Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Transferred to 

S. O. S. Hospital, France, October II, 1918. 
Martin, EphrIM J., Pvt., Columbia, Tenn. Transferred to 

108th Mobile Veterinary Hospital, April 18, 1918. 
McCloud, Ned B., Sgt., Lynnvllle, Tenn. Transferred to 

School of Artillery, Saumur, France, Aug. 30, 1918. 
Moser, GarNETT H., Pvt., Columbia, Tenn. Transferred to 

105th Supply Train, March 22, 1918. 
Moore, James E., Pvt., Waverly, Tenn. Honorably discharged, 

Oct, 24, 1917. 
Nelson, George F., Pvt., Lenoir City, Tenn. Transferred 

to S. O. S. Hospital, France, Aug. 10, 1918. 
Nichols, George W., Cook, Columbia, Tenn. Transferred 

to Casual Battalion of Unfits, April 26, 1918. 
PuCKETT, Ed., Pvt., Franklin, Tenn., Route No. 2. Trans- 
ferred to Casual Battalion of Unfits, April 26, 1918. 
Reaves, Nathaniel, Pvt., Columbia, Tenn. Transferred to 

French Military Hospital, France, Aug. 13, 1918. 
Rice. Bernard, PvI., Columbia, Tenn. Transferred to Brigade 

Headquarters, September, 1917. 
RoBISON, Dan M., Sgt., Franklin, Tenn., Route No. 1. 

Transferred to Replacement Division, France, July I, 1918. 



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Sharpe, John B., Sgl., Columbia, Tenn. Discharged to ac- 
cept commission as 2cJ Lieutenant, 114th F. A.. Nov. 26. 
1917. Transferred to 120th Infantry, 1918. 

Thompson. John S., Sgt., Columbia. Tenn., Route No. 1. 
Transferred to Replacement Division, New \ ork. July 1. 
1918. 

T01..LEV, Joe W., Sgt.. Columbia, Tenn.. Route No. 2. Trans- 
ferred to S. O. S. Hospital, France. November II, 1918. 

Voss, Henry T., Pvt., Columbia, Tenn. Transferred to 
Headquarters Co., 114th F. A., Sept. 14, 1917; transferred 
to 115th F. A., December, 1918. 

Williams, Harry C, Pvt., Columbia, Tenn., Route No. 6. 
Transferred to 19th Engineers, March 10, 1918. 

Winn, Willie, Mech., Columbia, Tenn. Transferred to 35th 
Engineers, March 10. 1918. 

SENT TO TRAINING SCHOOLS IN THE STATES 

AND FRANCE AND TRANSFERRED FROM 

THE REGIMENT 

BuCKNER, Edward R., Sgt., School of Field Artillery, Saumur, 

France. 
McCloud, Ned B., Sgt., School of Field .Artillery, Saumur, 

France. 
RoBISON, Dan M., Sgt., 3d Officers Training Camp, Leon 
Springs, Texas. 

COMMISSIONED FROM RANKS 

Robinson, Dan M., Sgt Dec. 11, 1917 

SH.ARPE, John B., Sgt Dec. 5, 1917 

ROSTER OF HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 
1 14th Field Artillery 

January 14, 1919 

Adams, John L.. Pvt. Ic Morgan City. La. 

Alexander. Stafford, Pvt. Ic Harrisburg, N. C. 

Alford, John R., Pvt Lewisburg, Tenn. 

Alleck, Steve, Pvt 19 Lester St., Buffalo, N. Y. 

Allen, C. A., Sgt 204 Fatherland St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Amis, L. F., Reg.Sgl.-Maj.. .81 1 West End, Franklin, Tenn. 
Anderson, J. W., Pvt.. . 106 S. Housel! St., Rocky Ml., N. C. 

Bailey, John W., Corp Fayetteville, Tenn. 

Baker, Frank B., Corp Ivanhoe Court, Nashville, Tenn. 

Ballencer, R, Pvt. Ic R. F. D. 1, New Market, Tenn 

Barlow, John H., Sgt Pennington Gap, Va. 

Bartles, Paul L., Mus. 2c. . 16 Rutledge St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Bearden, William H., Mus. 3c Franklin, Tenn. 

Bell, Wiley R., Cook Address Unknown 

Benn.s, C. E., Corp 1404 4th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Berdeaux, James C, Pvt Honoraville, Tenn. 

Bills, Gilliam C, Pvt R. R. 2, Lewisburg, Tenn. 

Blythe, L. L., Pvt. Ic 209 Leath St., Memphis, Tenn. 

BoARDMAN, W. K., Sgt Columbia, Tenn. 

Boettcer, a. O., Mus. 3c. .38 Prospect Ave., Hartford, Conn. 

BoREN, William S., Band Corp Lewisburg, Tenn. 

BossiNCER, Reynolds .A., Pvt Papa Bottom, Pa. 

Box, Horace D., Mus. 3c Waverly, Tenn. 

Butrymas, Alex, Pvt Address Unknown 



Burks, Robert C, Corp R. F. D. No. 1, Halls. Tenn. 

Burk. W. a.. Mus. 3c 2406 Cruzen, Nashville, Tenn. 

Bray, Charles A., Pvt, Ic Tate, Tenn. 

Brazil, M. S., Bug 1919 4th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Brock, James F., Pvt. Ic. .R. F. D. 4, Fountain City, Tenn. 

Bryant, Bruce A., Mus. 3c Lewisburg, Tenn. 

Bryant, L. E., Bn. Sgi.-Maj 

1306 Shelby Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Bvrns, J. P., Corp 803 17lh Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Carlton, T. I., Pvt. Ic, 4106 Minnesota Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Charlot, Elbert P., Corp Livermore, Conn. 

Cheek, W. T., Sgt 2406 Kesington PI., Nashville, Tenn. 

Cheney, John W., Band Corp.. .133 N. Collett St., Lima, O. 

Choate, Oscar, Pvt Dickson, Tenn. 

Clark, H. C, Mus. Ic 

404 W. Glenwood Ave.. Knoxville, Tenn. 

Clokey, M. p., Corp 506 W. 5th Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

CoCKLlN, Dennis, Pvt 1341 Verner St., Harrisburg, Pa. 

CONDRO, L. B., Pvt R. F. D. 2, Whitwell, Tenn. 

Cooper, Ollie D., Sgt Hohenwald, Tenn. 

Cooper, R. D., Corp 3502 Central Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Cornelius, Leland S., Corp S. Pittsburg, Tenn. 

Crowder, Robert S., Pvt Rosebud, Texas 

Cullom, O. T., Corp 

1038 Chickamauga Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Davidson, Richard W., Pvt Easley, S. C. 

Dean, John, Pvt 550 S. Pearl St., Albany, N. Y. 

Dehart, Edgar, Pvt. Ic 137 Walnut St., Melton, Pa. 

Desport, W. a., Corp.. .1229 7th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Dougherty. Orvill S., Pvt Alloona, Pa. 

Drum, James M., Pvt Address Unknown 

Dunn, George M., Corp.. .404 Russell St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Eastman, E. G., Pvt 327 7th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Edwards, Harrison W., Corp Cottage Grove, Tenn. 

Ecgleston, Edmond a., Corp R. F. D. I, Allison. Tenn. 

Elhardt, L. B., Ast. Bd. Ld. . . .415 3d St., Miamisburg, O. 

Emerson, Frank, Pvt R. F. D. 10, Columbia. Tenn. 

Evans. William E., Pvt Heiskell, Tenn. 

Faquin, Frank C, Pvt Address Unknown 

Ferreira, E. W., Pvt. Ic 

1325 W. Edward St., Springfield, III. 

Fleet, C. S., Corp.. .1283 S. Lauderdale St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Fleming, Willie L., Mus. 2c T. I. S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Eraser, Tillman, Pvt 707 3d Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Freeman, G. L., Pvt. Ic R. F. D. 10, Columbia, Tenn. 

Freeman, Jean A., Corp Coodletlsville, Tenn. 

Gardner. John B.. Pvt. Ic Sweetwater, Tenn. 

Gerard, M. A., Pvt Howard Lodge, Minn. 

Girton, Fred P., Corp Winchester, Tenn. 

Goodloe. H. M., Sgt 1403 Hawkins St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Gr.ay. B. H., Mus. Ic. .2014 24lh Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Grissum, Lum R., Pvt. Ic Maynardsville, Tenn. 

Groom, S. A., Band Ld...ll0 15th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Gunselman, Henry L., Mus. 3c Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Haley, W. C, Corp... 1511 Eastland Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
Hancock, E. C, Col. Sgl.. .91 1 5th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 
Hardin, M. W., Sgt.. .21 Elizabeth Apts., Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Harris, J. C, Sgt Waverly, Tenn. 



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Harrison, T. C, Mech...41l College St., Union City, Tenn. 

Hayes, Ivan E., Pvt Poplar St., Roaring Springs. Pa. 

Henderson, Jasper, Pvt R. F. D. 1, Dandridge, Tenn. 

Hodge, P. A., Pvt... 1805 Jo Johnston Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

HoENicKE, H. E., Pvt 2021 W. 22d St., Chicago, III. 

HoLCOMB, Summit, Pvt. Ic Elk Valley, Tenn. 

HoLDEN, Ralph D., Pvt. Ic Warlrace, Tenn. 

Holder, Charles E., Pvt Bumsville, Miss. 

Holt, Andrew, Pvt R. R. 1 , Bybee, Tenn. 

HOSSE, W. H., Pvl...lI22 Dcmonbreun St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Houck, Erskind D., Mus. 3c Lewisburg, Tenn. 

Hovis, Charles T., Sgt Ripley, Miss. 

Humphrey, A. V., Mus. 3c.. 8 Enterprise St., Glenlyon, Pa. 

Hurst, Henry G., Mus. 3c Lawrenceburg, Tenn. 

Jakes, R., Jr., Sgt 4703 Park Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

JerNICAN, C. N., Cook R. F. D. 1 , Manchester, Tenn. 

Johnson, G. M., Pvt 1903 River St., McKeesport, Pa. 

Jones. Bascom F., Band Corp Jefferson City, Tenn. 

Kelly, J. T., Sgt 1200 9th Ave., S., Nashville, Tenn. 

Knabe, E. C, Sgt 701 W. Cumberland, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Lasley, Fred N., Pvt. Ic Cloverdale, Ind. 

Leath. Whitlaw R., Band Corp Clinton, Tenn. 

Lewis, Henry J., Pvt 20 Pa. St.. Huntingdon, Pa. 

Littel, Gla E., Band Corp Spirit Lake, Iowa 

Lynch, Harry M., Hs'r 17 Cleveland St., Detroit, Mich. 

McCreary, Harry, Pvt. Ic Springfield, Tenn. 

McGlNLEY, Elmer, Pvt. Ic Maryville, Tenn. 

McGowen. C. B.. Corp 210 Bridge St., Franklin, Tenn. 

Mackey. Harry, Pvt Henderson, Ky. 

Martin, J. N., Pvt. ...23 National Ave., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Massengil, James B.. Corp Aflon, Tenn. 

Mason, John W., Corp Oak St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Matlock, John J., Corp R. R. 1, Auburn, Ky. 

Milam, Lennis, Mus. 3c Clifford, 111. 

Miller, Chatley, Pvt.. .1529 McGavock St., Nashville, Tenn. 
Monday, F. P.. Pvt. ..203 Oklahoma Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Nannie. T. J.. Corp 403 Longview, Nashville, Tenn. 

Nelson, J. C, Pvt... 1000 S. Bettison Circle, Dallas, Texas 
Newman, W. R.. Bd. Sgt.. .422 East S. St., Knoxville. Tenn. 

NoRDBERG, Clifford E., Pvt Address Unknown 

Parker, Thomas I., Pvt R. F. D. 5, Covington, Tenn. 

Parmalee, J. R., Bn. Sgt.-Maj 

117 E. Glenwood Ave., Knoxville. Tenn. 

Patterson, Ewell R., Pvt. Ic Address Unknown 

Patty, Burch C, Corp. ..401 High St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Pierce, Franklin, Sgt. Bug Greenville, Ga. 

Plumb, Charley A., Sgt Brazoria, Texas 

POLSTON. R. R., Mus. 2c. 1830 lOlh Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Price, Gen M., Pvt Gahana, Ohio. 

PuLLEN, John D., Pvt Cottage Grove, Tenn. 

Redford. K. G., Mus. 3c. .803 Columbia Ave.. Franklin. Tenn. 

Reed. Duncan, Sd'lr 409 Linden Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Riley, Dan, Reg. Sgt.-Maj Franklin, Tenn. 

Rhea, Carl V., Corp.. . 1624 Highland Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Rice, James N., Corp Centreville. Tenn. 

Richardson. M. D.. Corp.. 19 N. Cooper St., Memphis, Tenn. 



Roach, Herman F., Bug Water Valley, Tenn. 

Ro.ACHE, John E.. Mech.. .801 17th Ave.. S., Nashville. Tenn. 

Rogers. Lee, Corp Murf reesboro, Tenn. 

Runyon. L. S.. Col. Sgt.. .409 Fatherland St.. Nashville, Tenn. 

Rust. Robert E... Pvt Milan. Tenn. 

Sanders. Earl. Mus. 2c Lewisburg. Tenn. 

Sanderson, Solon J., Pvt Address Unknown 

Saye, Walter, Corp 70 Sumpter St., Charleston. S. C. 

Shanks, H. C, Pvt 211 Hickory St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Siegfried, Harry, Pvt Orwisburg, Pa. 

Skinner, Marvin L.. Pvt Grand Junction, Col. 

Snyder, Raymond, Pvt Roaring Springs, Pa. 

South ALL. G. W., Band Sgl Hopkinsville. Tenn. 

Stephens, J. N., Cook, 4908 Delaware Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
Steininc, Aubrey H., Pvt.. .809 N. 5lh St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Story, W. D., HsV R. F. D. 5, Ashland City, Tenn. 

Tally, A. P., Pvt. Ic ... 1421 Pendleton St., Columbia, S. C. 

Tally, Steve D., Mus. 3c Lewisburg, Tenn. 

Tarbet, James N., 1st Sgt Sallillo, Tenn. 

Teas, James J.. Band Sgt Waverly. Tenn. 

Thornton. J. J.. Pvt R. R. 7. Box 50. Dandridge, Tenn. 

Throneberry. J. D.. Pvt. Ic ...R. R. 1. Manchester, Tenn. 

Trimble, James, Pvt Cambridge, Iowa 

Turner, Lem V., Pvt. Ic Maynardsville, Tenn. 

Vetter, Claud O., Pvt.. .605 19th Ave.. N.. Nashville. Tenn. 
Voss, Henry T., Pvt. lc..904 S. High St., Columbia, Tenn. 
Warner, .A,, Pvt. ..1816 Jo Johnston Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
WhITAKER, O., Pvt.. . 1404 Jo Johnston Ave., Nashville. Tenn. 
White. William. Pvt. Ic.R. F. D. I. Maynardsville. Tenn. 

Whitlock, Herman, Corp New Market. Tenn. 

Whitworth, Bob D.. Corp Milan. Tenn. 

WiLEE, T. E., Pvt. Ic 35 Clark St., Clarksville. Tenn. 

Wilkes, Prentice B., Mus. 3c Whiteville, Tenn. 

Wilson, Hale, Pvt R. R. 34, Carmel, Ind. 

WiNFREE, E. C, Pvt. Ic. .767 E. 13th St., Hopkinsville, Tenn. 
Winters, M. O., Mu. 2c. 507 Cheatham St.. Springfield, Tenn. 

Wynn, William D.. Band Corp Sevierville, Tenn. 

Gittens, Morgan, Bug 29 Jones St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

Cone, William B., Mus. 3c Address Unknown 

Breton. Odion, Pvt Address Unknown 

LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEN WOUNDED OR 
GASSED 

Brown, ElswoRTH, First Lieutenant, gassed Sept. 28, 1918. 

LIST OF MEN KILLED OR DIED 

Hinckley, Avery, Mus., 3c. Soldier killed accidentally by ex- 
plosion of 3-in. shell at 1 I4th F. A. echelon, near Vaux, 
France, on Nov. 18. 1918. at 3 P.M.. while in line of duty. 
Nearest kin, Mrs. Lizzie Leahy (sister). Route No. 23, Dan- 
bury, Conn. 

St. Germain, Wilfred C, Mus., 3c. Soldier killed acci- 
dentally by explosion of 3-in. shell at 1 Nth F. A. echelon, 
near Vaux. France, on Nov. 18, 1918. at 3 P.M., while in 
line of duty. Nearest kin. Miss Yuonne Mary St. Germain 
(sister). 4 Falls St.. Worcester, Mass. 



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OFFICERS AND MEN WHO HAVE LEFT 
REGIMENT 

Brittain, David J., Isl Lieut Resigned March 28, 1918 

Trimble, Joseph C, 2d Lieut Resigned Dec. 3. 1917 

Smith, Daniel L. Jr., 2d Lieut. . .Transferred Aug. 10, 1918 

Bailey, BrO.ADUS, 2d Lieut Transferred Oct. 28, 1917 

Jackson, Nat B., Capl Transferred Aug. 12, 1918 

CaLLAN, Paul J., Isl Lieut Transferred Jan. 10, 1918 

Gilbert, John W, 2d Lieut Transferred Jan. 10, 1918 

Faircloth, E. C, 2d Lieut Transferred Jan. 10, 1918 

Bruce, William P., 2d Lieut Transferred Aug. 10, 1918 

Moses, John, 1 si Lieut Resigned Nov. 15, 1917 

Cheek, Frank L., 1st Lieut Transferred Nov. 28, 1917 

Frierson, W. C, Reg. Sgl. Mjr... Transferred July 19, 1913 

Daniels, William, Sup. Sgt Transferred July 19, 1918 

Fryor, John T., Pvt Hospital, June 19, 1918 

Jones, Walter S., Pvt. Ic Hospital, Sept. 12, 1918 

Gerhart, Alex, Pvt Hospital, Sept. 12, 1918 

RiDNER, David R., Pvt Hospital, Oct. 2, 1918 

Barker, William P., Pvt Hospital, Oct. 2, 1918 

Reynolds, John R., Sgt ...Hospital, Oct. 10, 1918 

Tucker, William H., Pvt Hospital, Oct. 10, 1918 

Painter, Alfred, Pvt Hospital, Oct. 11, 1918 

Wheatley, W. B., Corp Hospital, Oct. 17, 1913 

Calavano, Michael, Pvt Hospital, Oct. 16, 1918 

Knight, Fred O., Pvt Hospital, Oct. 20, 1918 

Donaldson, Paul, Sgt 

Saumur Artillery Training School, Oct. 28, 1918 

Leland, Earl C, Pvt Hospital, Sept. 12, 1918 

McCuRDY. Malone N., PVt Hospital, Nov. 30, 1918 

Cunningham, Hobson D., Pvt Hospital, Nov. 25, 1918 

Hart, Roy R., Pvt Hospital. Dec. 16, 1918 

Nelson, James C, Pvt Hospital, Dec. 29, 1918 

Jones, Fred G., Private Hospital, Jan. II, 1919 

RisoN, Jasper E., Corp Hospital, Jan. 10, 1919 

LIST OF MEN SENT TO TRAINING CAMP 
Johnson, Robt. T., 1st Sgt. 
Frierson, William C, Reg. Sgt. Maj. 
Hughes, Owen W.. BatL Sgt. Maj. 
Daniels, William, Sup. Sgt. 
Dempster, John, Sgt. 
Cooper, Roy D., Corp. 
Shaw, John W., 1st Sgt. 
Bass, Clark N., Sgt. 
Maher, Thomas D.. Sgt. 
Smith, Daniel O., Sgt. 
Long, George W., Pvt. 
Thompson, Elmore, Pvt. 
Jakes, Robert, Jr., Reg. Sgt. Maj. 
Donaldson, Paul, Sgt. 

ROSTER OF SUPPLY COMPANY 
I 14th Field Artillery 

Brouch, Luxemburg, December, 1918 

Abner, John T., Wag Clarksville, Tenn. 

Adkins, Ira U., Wag.... 907 Thomas Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Adams, Chambers D., Cook Sanders, Ky. 

Acer, Adam C, Pvt 439 Grant St., Williamsport, Pa. 



Antrobus, William E., Pvt.. .R. F. D. No. 3, Falmouth, Ky. 
Awtrey, Jackson L., Corp. ..406 4th Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Ayers, J.ay, Pvt 5301/2 N. 5th St., Springfield, III. 

Banta, R. W., Pvt 379 Stillman St., Bridgeport, Conn. 

Barbel, Sol T., Wag Route 4. Clarksville, Tenn. 

Boehme, Lewis N. K., Wag R. F. D. 3, Santa Fe, Tenn. 

Bonds, Charlie C, Pvt Antloch, Tenn. 

Bradley. Albert E., Pvt North Bend, Pa. 

Campbell, Charlie, Wag Haydenburg, Tenn. 

Brown, William O., Wag R. F. D. 1 , Burns, Tenn. 

Coffey, James C, Wag R. F. D. 2, Idol, Tenn. 

Cox, J. B., Corp Pegram, Tenn. 

Cox, James W., Wag Pegram, Tenn. 

Davis, Charles, Sgt Clarksville, Tenn. 

DocKERY, Wrex, Wag R. F. D. 7, Dandridge, Tenn. 

DoRMAN, Mason L., Pvt. Ic Corinth, Ky. 

Dugcan, Walter C, Wag...R. F. D. 7, Dandridge, Tenn. 
Durrett, Albert B., Wag.. . .R. F. D. 4, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Elliott, James, Jr., Pvt Newcomb, Tenn. 

Everhart, C. R., Wag R. F. D. 5. New Market, Tenn. 

Fairfield, C. D., Cook R. F. D. 6, Dandridge, Tenn. 

Farmer, Horace, Wag R. F. D. 1. Washburn, Tenn. 

Ferguson, R. F., PvI. Ic R. F. D. 4, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Frech, E. M., Sd'lr R. F. D. 1, Hickory Point, Tenn. 

Gallop, Kirby E., Wag R. F. D. 7, Aberdeen, Miss. 

Gibson, Henry A., Wag Palmyra, Tenn. 

Gillespie, John O., Pvt R. F. D. 10, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Gordon, Clarence, Pvt Murray, Utah 

Gray, William D., PvI 115 Main St.. Clarksville, Tenn. 

Green, Spheers, Wag Route 6, Johnson City, Tenn. 

Guess, Ellis C, Sgt 667 Dunlap St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Haggard, George, Pvt. Ic Route 2, Long Island, Ala. 

Hailey, C. E., Wag 30 Hazel St., Nashville, Tenn. 

Hatfield, John F., Wag R. F. D. 2, Oneida, Tenn. 

Hatfield, Ray, Pvt R. F. D. 1, Dunlap, Tenn. 

Hawkins. Emmett F., Wag Route 3, Palmer, Texas 

Haycood, Noah F., Pvt Killen, Ala. 

Henry, Dale M., Sd'lr R. F. D. 7, Idol, Tenn. 

Holmes, W. M., Reg. Sup. Sgt 

830 S. 7lh Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 

Hooper, Morgan G., Corp.. R. F. D. 4, Ashland Cily, Tenn. 

Jackson, Robert M., Wag R. F. D. 4, Lebanon, Tenn. 

James, William R., Wag R. F. D. 2, Dayton, Tenn. 

Johnson, Ben L., Wag R. F. D. 1, Cool Creek, Tenn. 

Johnson, Charlie A., Wag Clarksville, Tenn. 

Justice, Martin, Wag R. F. D. 3. Crosby, Tenn. 

Keel. Smith M., Sup. Sgt R. F. D. 3, Dover, Tenn. 

Keel, William H., Cook R. F. D. 3. Dover, Tenn. 

Key, Dwight C, Wag. . . . R. F. D. 2, Fountain City, Tenn. 

KiRBY, Louis, Hs'r R. F. D. 4, Clarksville, Tenn. 

King, Lawson, Wag Cagle, Tenn. 

King. Charles E., Wag Roberlta, Tenn. 

LiESKE, Joseph H., Pvt Address Unknown 

Logan, J. H., Wag.. .223 East Anderson St., Knoxville, Tenn. 
Long. Loren E., Pvt. Ic. . . R. F. D. 4, Johnson City, Tenn. 

McBee, George, Wag R. F. D. 1, New Tazewell, Tenn. 

McCeldry, George H., Wag.. R. F. D. 7, Sevierville, Tenn. 
McClanahan, E. E., 1st Sgt., 219 Adams St., Memphis, Tenn. 



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McDaniels, Claude, Pvt 651 5lh St., Memphis. Tenn. 

McIntyre, R. L., Pvt 

545 N. Cumberland St., Lebanon, Tenn. 

Mabry, John E,. Sgt Clarksville, Tenn. 

Majors, James B., Wag R. F. D. I, Liberty Hill, Tenn. 

Malone, Franklin J., Wag Copleville, Tenn. 

Mallicoat, Joel, Wag R. F. D. 1, Idol, Tenn. 

Marcrom, Harold D., Cook Route 1, Hillsboro, Tenn. 

Miles, H. H., Regt. Sup.-Sgt 

116 E. Mary St., Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

Meyers, Fred C, Pvt. ..1615 Hollywood Ave., Chicago, III. 

Montgomery, Ethel, Wag R. F. D. 1. Baxter, Tenn. 

Moody, Davis, Wag R. F. D. 5, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Morrison, Lee R., Corp R. F. D. 1, Clarksville, Tenn. 

NebLETT, Jones D., Mess Sgt.. .R. F. D. I, Clarksville, Tenn. 
OzMENT, H. E., Mech...2119 N. 6th Ave. Nashville, Tenn. 
Pendegr.ass, B. a.. Wag 

10221/2 9th Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. 

Phillips, Onva K., Wag Norcross, Tenn. 

Pollard, Homer H., Wag... 504 Edith Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Quarrels, James C, Wag R. F. D. I, Talbert, Tenn. 

Reynolds, Robert L., Pvt. Ic Guthrie, Ky. 

RoBERSON, James V., Cook Mt. Airy, Tenn. 

Roberts, Benjamin J., Mech Franklin, Tenn. 

Sartain, John H.. Wag R. F. D. 3, White Pine, Tenn. 

Shipley, William J., Wag Basseii, Ark. 

Shipley, John W., Wag Route 2, Bluff City, Tenn. 

Shipley, Jack, Pvt Bassett, Ark. 

ShockleY, Theopolis, Wag Route 2, Idol, Tenn. 

Smith, Oscar W., Wag Boonesville, Miss, 

Smith, Claude, Wag Route 4, Corryton, Tenn. 

Smith, Dave C, Pvt. Ic Route 5, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Smith, Guy E., Pvt Route 5, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Smith, Joseph, Hs'r Noelton, Tenn. 

Speer, Lawrence M., Wag.. ..253 East St., Memphis, Tenn. 

StiNE, Willie, Wag Route 2, Bristol, Tenn. 

Suddarth, James K., Wag Route 3, Lebanon, Tenn. 

Tarwater, George, Wag Route 5, Sevierville, Tenn. 

Taylo!'., Sidney O., Wag Willeys, Miss. 

Taylor, Ike, Pvl. Ic Route 4, Watertown, Tenn. 

Thornton, Grover C, Wag Route 7, Dandridge, Tenn. 

Vanni, Phillip A., Pvt. . . . Peabody Hotel, Memphis. Tenn. 

Wall, Joseph A., Mech. ...1 128 N. 3d St., Memphis, Tenn. 

Watson, Arthur E., Hr's Adams, Tenn. 

Williams, Humes P., Wag Route 1, Clarksville, Tenn. 

Williams, Joseph C, Wag Route 7, Rutledge, Tenn. 

Williams, Leon B., Wag Drumwright, Okla. 

Woods, Frank E., Wag Route I, Alexandria, Tenn. 

Wortham, Jas. R. C, Cook. .998 Lane Ave.. Memphis, Tenn. 

Wright, Carson C, Pvt. Ic Route 7, Lebanon. Tenn. 

Warren. Pate, Pvl. Ic Address Unknown 

Attached to Supply Company 

Brodgman, Dewey W., Pvl Address Unknown 

Brabham, Charlie C, Pvt Address Unknown 

Hickman, Forbey W., Pvt Address Unknown 

HoLLIS, Sampson T. T., Pvt Address Unknown 



Johnson, Charles G., Pvt Address Unknown 

Pritchett, Champ C, Corp Address Unknown 

Thomas, Louis O., Pvt Address Unknown 

Neely. Roy E., Pvt Address Unknown 

LIST OF MEN WOUNDED OR GASSED 

Henry, D.\le M., Sd'lr Nov. 29, 1918 

Smith, Joe, Hs'r Nov. 29, 1918 

Barbee, Sol T., Wag'r Nov. 29, 1918 

Reynolds, Robt. L., Pvt. Ic Nov. 29, 1918 

Huffman, Roy, Pvt Ord. Det., Nov. 29, 1918 

Above men accidentally wounded by explosion of German 
fuse. 

MEN KILLED IN SUPPLY COMPANY AND ORD- 
NANCE DETACHMENT 
None 

PERMANENT LOSSES TO SUPPLY COMPANY 
AND ORDNANCE DETACHMENT 

Davis, Hugh C, Pvt., discharged S. C. D., Sept. 30, 1917. 

Trice, Thomas H., Hs'r, transferred to 464th Pontoon Train, 
Jan. 29, 1918. 

Saunders, Henry T., Sd'lr., discharged S. C. D., Feb. 4, 
1918. 

Crouch, Lawrence O., Corp., transferred to Q. M. C. N. A., 
Camp Sevier, April 16, 1918. 

Smith, Russell H., Pvt., dropped, March 4, 1918. 

Bradley, Ernest H., Pvt., transferred to Q. M. C. N. A., 
Camp Sevier, March 30, 1918. 

Diamond. Mike. Pvt.. Ord. Det.. transferred to Motor 
Mech. Tram, Jan. 28. 1918. 

Lightfort, Robert, Pvt., transferred to Q. M. C. N. A., 
Camp Sevier, Feb. 19, 1918. from Ord. Det. 

James. Robert L.. 1st Sgt.. transferred to 35th Engineers. 
March 1. 1918. 

Ellis. James, Pvt., Ord. Del., transferred to 35th Engineers. 
March 1. 1918. 

Majors. Ralph, Pvt. Ord. Det., transferred to 19th Engi- 
neers, March 1, 1918. 

Spaulding, Eugene, Pvt. Ord. Det., transferred to 19lh En- 
gineers, March 1, 1918. 

Lay', Melton, Wag'r, transferred to Casual Battalion. Camp 
Sevier, May 2, 1918. 

Huffman, Frank B., transferred to Casual Battalion, Camp 
Sevier, May 2, 1918. 

Hurst. George R.. Wag'r. transferred to Replacement Divi- 
sion. July 20, 1918. 

Griffin, Ralph K., Wag'r. transferred to Replacement Divi- 
sion, July 20, 1918. 

Neal, William W., Wag'r, transferred to Labor Battalion, 
A. E. F., July 30, 1918. 

Hayes, Claude W., Pvt., transferred to Replacement Divi- 
sion, July 20, 1918, from Ordnance Detachment. 

Kleeman, William. Sup. Sgt.. transferred to Officers' Train- 
ing Camp. Samur. France. July 30. 1918. 
Officers 

Neely. James H.. 2d Lieut., discharged March 8, 1918. 



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MEN SENT TO TRAINING CAMPS IN AMERICA 

AND FRANCE 
Holmes, William W., Reg. Sup. Sgt. . . .Leon Springs, Texas 

Kleeman, William, Sup. Sgt Leon Springs, Texas 

Malone, Franklin J., Wag'r Leon Springs, Texas 

Kleeman, William, Sup. Sgt Saumur, France 

MEN WHO HAVE DIED OF DISEASE SINCE THE 

REGIMENT WAS FORMED 
McClanahan. Earl E., Isi Sgt Feb. 5, 1919 

MEN WHO HAVE RECEIVED COMMISSIONS 

SINCE THE REGIMENT WAS FORMED 
Kleeman, William, Sup. Sgt. 

ROSTER OF HEADQUARTERS SANI- 
TARY DETACHMENT 
1 14th Field Artillery 

January I, 1919 

Broyles, S. H., Pvt. Ic 219 Irish St., Greenville, Tenn. 

Burroughs, L. O., Pvt. Ic. .601 Church St., Nashville, Tenn. 
Griffey, E. W., Pvt.... 1428 Madison Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Harris, William B., Pvt 210 S. Lena St., Dothan, Ala. 

Hawkins, Walter L., Pvt Anniston, Ala. 

Hayes, William S., Sgt Columbia, Tenn. 

HiLDRETH, James, PvI 915 Caldwell St., Charlotte, N. C. 

Irby, Philip E., Pvt. Ic. .. 1016 Brantz St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Lane, Elsbery E., Pvt Route I. Edenlon, N. C. 

Merwin, H. J., Pvt. Ic. .180 Klandridge Pk., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Mumford, Major L., Pvt Route 1, Fremont, N. C. 

Oehmic, K. E., Sgt... 1005 W. Greenwood Ave., Nashville, 
Tenn. 

SheetZ, Eugene T., Pvt. Ic Route 2, Nashville, Tenn. 

Wetterau, Lin C, Pvt. Ic. .802 Russell St., Nashville. Tenn. 

Wright, Talmage M., Pvt. Ic Ml. Juliet, Tenn. 

WiNSLOW, H. S., Pvt Winslow Ave., Boston, Mass. 

Mitchell, Charles E., Pvt Asheville, N. C. 



Dental Detachment 

Freeman, Ernest L.. Pvt Miles, Iowa 

Moore, Charles D., Pvt. Ic Gallatin, Tenn. 

Stewart, Henry W., Pvt Miles, Iowa 

No men of this detachment have died of disease since formed 
No men of this detachment have been commissioned from 
ranks. 

None wounded or gassed. 

MEN WHO HAVE LEFT THIS ORGANIZATION 
Tucker. Harlin G., 1st Lt., Sept. 30, 1918, transferred to 

Base Hospital No. I 16. 
Gowers, Joseph F., Pvt. Ic, Sept. 27, 1918, transferred to 

sick in hospital. 
Miller, Emery L.. Pvt. Ic, Oct. 29, 1918, transferred to sick 

in hospital. 
Mitchell, James A., Pvt., Nov. 25, 1918, transferred to sick 

in hospital. 
TiBBS, James A., Sgt., Nov. 11, 1918. transferred to sick in 

hospital. 
Jeffries, Leo W., First Sgt., Nov. 25, 1918, transferred to 

sick in hospital. 
Jarrett, Cicero, Pvt., Sept. 16, 1918, on D. S. and dropped. 

ROSTER OF HEADQUARTERS VETERI- 
NARY DETACHMENT 
I 14th Field Artillery 

December 29, 1918 

Alderson, Thomas J., Pvt.lc Columbia, Tenn. 

GuNN. Nicholas R., Far.. .503 Hudson St.. Nashville. Tenn 

Jones, Howard B., Far Route 3, Santa Fe, Tenn. 

KiNNARD, Thomas J., Far Columbia, Tenn. 

Shacklett, W. L.. Pvt... 1815 Jo Johnston Ave., Nashville, 
Tenn. 



A Soldier's Song 
Lieut. Grantland Rice, in The Daily Hatchet 
(Published aboard the U. S. S. George Washington) 

When the burning thirst of the gods of Hate 

Is quenched by their bloody wine; 
When the Huns are hurled from ihe Western Gate 

And harried beyond the Rhine; 
When the flowers grow sweet where the crosses reign. 

Set light in the crimson loam. 
Then each will go back to his girl again 

Where she waits for him there at home. 
And we will not speak of the hell of war 

As we sit with her, hand in hand; 
But of only the things we knew before 

And only the things we planned. 
So peace shall rest in the place of care 

And happiness banish pain 
When we all come back from "over there," 

Back to our girls again. 




HISTORY OF THE 
1 1 3TH FIELD ARTILLERY 




With the Fighting Artillery in France 

(I) Howitzer and caisson drawn by lO-lon tractor. U. S. A. (2) Camouflaged emplacement of French 75. (3) American rolling kitchen in 
action. (4) One of the Howitzers of the 113th F. A. harassing the Huns. (5) 135 firmg. (6) Ammunition for the 135's. (7) Road condi- 
tions at the front. (8) Camouflage netting over 153 Howitzer. (9) Easy travel in the heavy regiments. This was made in the U. S. A. 
(10) Gun squad of 155 waitmg orders to resume firmg. (11) French 75 in action. (12) Battery of 1 55's. (13) Effects of a German air 
bomb on horses of an artillery unit. (14) Machine gun used by artillery for protection from German air planes. 



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Colonel Albert Cox and Officers, 1 1 3th Field Artillery 



The 1 1 3th Field Artillery 



When the 1 1 3th Field Artillery was mustered into 
the service of the United States it was one hundred 
per cent a volunteer organization, created after war 
had been declared. About June I, 1917, Adjutant- 
General Beverly S. Royster, Sr., of North Carolina, 
secured authorization for the organization of a regi- 
ment of field artillery, and on June 1 3th the first re- 
cruit was received by Battery B, at Washington. 
Battery A, of Newbern, and Battery C. of Durham, 
were soon in process of organization, and on June 
27th all three reported themselves ready for federal 
inspection. These three batteries were designated as 
the First Battalion. The Second Battalion went to 
the western part of the State and was organized al- 
most as rapidly as the first had been, and early in 
July Battery D, of Wadesboro and Monroe; Bat- 
tery E, of Lenoir, and Battery F, of Mooresville, 
were ready for muster in. No effort was made to 
organize the Supply and Headquarters companies until 
after the two battalions were completed, and recruit- 
ing for these two outfits began on the morning of July 
16, 1917. They were ready also for muster in on 
the morning of July 23d, the day set for it. 



The First North Carolina Field Artillery, as it was 
then called, was thoroughly representative of the State. 
Every section of the State was represented. Of the 
1 00 counties in the State, only eleven lacked repre- 
sentation in the regiment. Later the regiment was to 
receive replacements from thirty-seven States, the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, and seven foreign countries, but it 
began its existence a Tar Heel outfit. 

On July 13, 1917, Judge Albert L. Cox, of 
Raleigh, a distinguished lawyer and former officer of 
the North Carolina National Guard, was commis- 
sioned Colonel of the regiment. On July 27, 1917, 
Major Sidney C. Chambers, of Durham, was trans- 
ferred from the Third North Carolina Infantry and 
made Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment. Captain 
Thad G. Stem, of Oxford, Third North Carolina 
Infantry, and Captain Alfred L. Bulwinkle, of Gas- 
Ionia, First North Carolina Infantry, were transferred 
to the regiment and promoted to Major. Major Stem 
was assigned to the First Battalion and Major Bul- 
winkle to the Second. 



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On August 10, 1917, the strength of the regiment 

was as follows: 

Officers Enlisted 

Battery Men 

A— New Bern 5 164 

B— Washington 5 141 

C— Durham 4 170 

D— Wadesboro 5 136 

E— Lenoir 5 150 

F_Mooresvi11e 5 172 

Headquarters Company. Raleigh 2 92 

Supply Company, Raleigh 2 35 

Recruits 6 

33 1066 

Infirmary, Wilmington 4 22 

37 1088 

Headquarters 8 

45 1088 

The original officers of the regiment were: 

Field and Staff 

COLONEL 
Cox, Albert L Raleigh, N. C. 

LIEUTENANT COLONEL 
Chambers, Sidney C Raleigh, N. C. 

MAJOR. FIRST BATTALION 
Stem, Thaddeus G Raleigh, N. C. 

MAJOR, SECOND BATTALION 
BuLWiNKLE, Alfred L Raleigh, N. C. 

CAPTAIN, ADJUTANT, REGT. 
Allen, Matt H Raleigh, N. C. 

CHAPLAIN 
Lacy, Benjamin R., Jr Raleigh, N. C. 

CAPTAIN, ADJUTANT, FIRST BATTALION 
Joyner, William T Raleigh, N. C. 

CAPTAIN, ADJUTANT, SECOND BATTALION 
Boyce, Erskine E Raleigh, N. C. 

Battery A 

CAPTAIN 
Weddell, J. H New Bern, N. C. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 

GuiON, William B New Bern, N. C. 

Morris, David R New Bern, N. C. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 

Dixon, Richard B New Bern, N. C. 

Royster, Beverly S., Jr New Bern, N. C. 



Battery B 

CAPTAIN 
Rodman, W. C Washington, N. C. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 

Simmons, Enoch S Washington, N. C. 

Baugham, Wm. E Washington, N. C. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 

Dixon, George S Washington, N. C. 

Lawrence, Robert H Washington, N. C. 

Battery C 

CAPTAIN 
McLendon, L. P Durham, N. C. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 

Gattis, Samuel M., Jr Durham, N. C. 

Fuller, Frank L., Jr Durham, N. C. 

SECOND LIEUTENANT 
Craige, Thos. J Durham, N. C. 

Battery D 

CAPTAIN 

Hardison, K, M Wadesboro, N. C. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 

AsHCRAFT, Frank B Wadesboro, N. C. 

Moore, Julian E Wadesboro, N. C. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 

Covington, Harry B Wadesboro, N. C. 

Hardison, Herman M Wadesboro, N. C. 

Battery E 

CAPTAIN 
Williams, Bufort F Lenoir, N. C. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 

Richardson, Sanford A Lenoir, N. C. 

McBrayer, Claude B Lenoir, N. C. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 

Bowman, Wade V Lenoir, N. C. 

Jones, Eugene P Lenoir, N. C. 

Battery F 

CAPTAIN 
Morrison, Reid R Camp Sevier, S. C. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 

Crayton, Louis B Camp Sevier, S. C. 

Morrow, George A Camp Sevier, S. C. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 

Allison, Eugene Camp Sevier, S. C. 

Dusenberry, Gowan, Jr Camp Sevier, S. C. 

Headquarters Company 

CAPTAIN 
Johnston, Rufus M Raleigh, N. C. 



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FIRST LIEUTENANT 
Whitaker, William P Raleigh, N. C. 

Supply Company 

CAPTAIN 
Fletcher, Arthur L Raleigh, N. C. 

FIRST LIEUTENANT 
Perry, Percy B Raleigh, N. C. 

Sanitary Detachment 

MAJOR 

Pridcen, Claude L Wilmington, N. C. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 

Groom, Gabe H Wilmingion, N. G, 

Speed, J. A Wilmington, N. C. 

Spoon, Thomas L Wilmington, N. C. 

SECOND LIEUTENANT 
Nathan, Simeon A Wilmington, N. C. 

Attached 

CAPTAIN 
Fenner, E. F Raleigh, N. C. 

The rosier of the regiment presented below shows 
the regiment as it was when it reached the Le Mans 
area in France, preparatory for embarking for home. 
A Htlle later the regiment was split into casual detach- 
ments, several hundred men being taken out in this 
way and many changes made in the old organiza- 
tions. The names of the men are given with the or- 
ganizations they served with. 

A little later there were several changes made 
among the officers of the regiment. Capt. Robert M. 
Hanes, who appears on the roster as commanding of- 
ficer of Battery A, was promoted to Major, and 
Lieut. Beverly S. Royster was promoted to Captain 
of this outfit. Capt. Lennox P. McLendon, of Bat- 
tery C, became Major and was succeeded by Lieut. 
Richard D. Dixon, of Battery D, who received his 
captaincy. Capt. Louis B. Clayton, of Battery E, 
was appointed Major, and was succeeded by Lieut. 
Wade V. Bowman, also promoted to a captaincy. 
All of these new Majors were attached to the regi- 
ment. 

Capt. Arthur L. Fletcher and Lieut. Joseph Loner- 
gon, of the Supply Company, were transferred to the 
Third Division, legula;- army, and their places were 
taken by Captain W. B. Graema and Lieut. Park 
B. Smith, of the Third Division. Capt. Isaac R. 
Wagner, of the Sanitary Detachment, was also trans- 
ferred to the Third Division. 



THE ROSTER 

The roster of the regiment is as follows: 

Field and Staff 

COLONEL 
Albert L. Cox 

LIEUTENANT COLONEL 
Sidney C. Chambers 

MAJORS 
ThadDEUS G. Stem, Commanding First Battalion. 
Alfred L. Bulwinkle, Commanding Second Battalion. 

ADJUTANTS 
Ca,PT. Custaf R. Westfeldt, Regimental Adjutant. 
Capt. Kenneth M. Hardison, Adjutant First Battalion. 
Capt. Robert P. Beaman, Jr., Adjutant Second Battalion. 

PERSONNEL OFFICER 
Capt. Alfred W. Horton 

INTELLIGENCE OFFICER 
Lieut. Caleb K. Burgess 

BATTERY A 

CAPTAIN 
Hanes, Roeert H. 

FIRST LIEUTENANT 
Rovster, Beverly S., Jr. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 



Ahlers, Carl 
CoEB, George W. 



FIicgins, Ernest J. 



FIRST SERGEANT 
Bell, Edward E. 

SUPPL1' SERGEANT 
Jackson, George H. 

MESS SERGEANT 
ToRRENCE, Samuel M. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
Taylor, Dewey H. 



QuiNN, Arthur K. 
ShiIiver, Harry R. 
White, Luther 
Bayliss, Emory J. 
Arnold, Troy L. 

Carmichael, Fred W. 
Chadwick, Floyd M., 
Crawford, Thomas R 
Creach, John W. 
Grantham, Zingle Z. 
Brewer, Zebulon E. 
Griffin, George A. 
Zeicler, Jacob H. 
Jones, Frank F. 
GUYES, Adolph 



SERGEANTS 

Avery, Otis 
Mclawhon, Richard 
Holton, Alonza W. 
Simmons, John 



CORPORALS 

Furqueron, George W. 
Jr. Beck, Norman F. 

Andrews, Clarence B. 

Fletcher, Marvin B. 

Avery, Ewell C. 

Goings. Oscar M. 

Bell, Charles H. 

Smith, Warren E. 

Wiley, Rupert H. 



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Bland, James C. 
Dixon, Bertie D. 



COOKS 

Phillips, Othniel S. 
Taylor, Clayton S. 



HORSESHOERS 
Croom, Elgar W. Robinson, William W. 

Hallgreen, William 

MECHANICS 
Wayne, McDuffie (Chief) Ipock, Charlie L. 
Campbell, Claud C. Scales, Leon J. 

SADDLER 
Bray, William B. 



Deal, Ira W. 
Farrior, Wade H. 



BUGLERS 

Lauchinchouse, Bert G. 



f^RIVATES, 

Adams, Austin P. 
Barrus, Norwood G. 
Basden, John W. 

BOLINCER, RaV 

Brinley, William W. 
Brewer, Thomas C. 
Carter, Walter S. 
Collins, Fay Roy 
Collins, Harry H. 
Collins, Julian C. 
Conner, Amos W. 
Cooper, Oscar E. 
Culpepper, Benjamin F. 
Culpepper, Otis B. 
Daucherty, William F. 
Everington, Oda M. 
Fornes, Clyde R. 
FoRNES, Guy L. 
Fox, Neverson C. 
Foy, Council L. 
Garner, Roman J. 
Gaskins, Herbert E. 
Gibson, Benjamin S. 
Harris, Fred S. 



FIRST CLASS 
HicGiNs, James A. 
LiNDER, Clarence R. 
McCosely, John E. 
Mahaffy, Alfred L. 
Manly, Bernard R. 
Masters, Sam A. 
Moore, Walter 
Nobles, Jack 
NoRRis, John C. 
Norris, Levi V. 
Paul, Amos 
Pittmaj/ Augustus F. 
Pollock, Walter W. 
Powell, William I. 
Price, Neely W. 
Salem, Shikery 
Sandlin, Liston L. 
Sykes, William F. 
Ricgs, George F. 
Taylor, Frank B. 
Taylor, Fred T. 
Watson, Henry F. 
Whitley, Edward J. 
Williamson, Robert L. 



Barrow, Joseph B. 
Basden, Carey G. 
Bell, Andrew J. 
Berry, James L. 
Bray, Walter H. 
Brewer, Charles B. 
Brooks, Robert L. 
Carlson, Albert L. 
Carver, Royal S. 
Clarks, John R. 
CoGGiN, Otho D. 
Conway, William C. 
Davis, Jim B. 
Dixon, William F. 
Drain, John E. 



PRIVATES 

Mattocks, William F. 
Metts, Emery T. 
Miller, Uree L. 
Mitchell, Frederick G. 
Mullenmesiter, William H. 
Newby, Tena K. 
Outlaw, Lewis W. 
Parker, Walter H. 
Peacock, John F. 
Pearce, David C. 
Phelps, Sturdivant P. 
Porter, Duncan N. 
Rawls, William J. 
Rush, William 
Ryan, Thomas A. 



Dunn, Walter R. 
Edwards, Isom R. 
Edwards, Willie 
Franks, Charlie L. 
Gatlin, Charlie E. 
Garner, Victor C. 
Godwin, Charles R. 
Ham, Allen B. 
Hatch, Clyde G. 
Heuser, Wilbur L. 
Hill, Joseph F. 
Hunt, Elsworth 
Jackson, Lloyd F. 
Jenkins, Samuel 
KooNCE, Benjamin W. 
KozESKi, Joseph 
Lee, Andrew W. 
Linton, Lev A. 
McCarrel, Eugene R. 
McKiNNEY, John W. 
McLendon, Moran D. 
Manning, George H. 



Scott, Brice E. 
Scott, Livingstone A. 
Scott, Walter W. 
Shandy, George P. 
Singleton, Harrison M. 
Steekel, Alphonse 
Stowe, Lewis R. 
Sultan, William H. 
Thoma, Samuel 5. 
Thompson, Eugene 
Truitt, Wiley 
Van Herwyn, Covert 
Weber, Andrew 
Westbrook, Benjamin 
White, Esra L. 
Willis, Fred P. 
Wolfe, Elmer E. 
Womble, Tony 
Woodard, Vance R. 
WooTEN, Richard A. 
YosELWiTZ, George W. 
Winberry, George F. 



Attached 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Harris, Raymond W. 

BATTERY B 

CAPTAIN 
Rodman, Wiley C. (NG) 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 
Hand, Leroy C. Wcod, Charles H. (NG) 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 
Adler, William C. (RA) Suplee, Irwin S. (US) 

Attached 

SECOND LIEUTENANT - 

Hedden, Ernest M. (NA) 

Enlisted Men 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Latham, Jesse H. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Newby, Clyde M. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Spruill, Wilbur C. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
Fleming, Robert E. 



McKeel, Frank W. 
Gulley, Newton S. 
Ross, Leonard E. 
Respess, Elbert J. 
Jones, Fred W. 



SERGEANTS 

Ratcliff, Murphy O. 
WooLWARD, Jesse E. 
Bowen, Surry P. 
Bishop, Alonzo C. 
AusBON, Clarence S. 



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Faucette, Holt P. 
Cole, Robert E. 
Harvey, Bonner W. 
Best, Floyd C. 
Barr, Eston M. 
Bunch, Raymond L. 
Harris, William P. 
Houston, Laird B. 
Shelton, Warren C 
Hatsell, George L. 
Everett, Charlie G. 



Blount, Nollie W. 
Forrest, Henry D. 



CORPORALS 

Brooks, Claude M. 
Goldsmith, Clarence D. 
Davis, Clarence 
Kelley, Fred L. 

HUDNELL, ArMSTEAD B. 

Harrison, Jatha H. 
Campbell, Harvey L. 
Hassell, William L. 
Cherry, William G. 
Dempsey, Theodore 
Bagwell, Marshall E. 

COOKS 

LlLLEY, GrOVER C 



CHIEF MECHANIC 
Proctor, James K. 

MECHANICS 

Tripp, Joseph E. 



Cox, Sidney J. 
Hardee, David L. 



HORSESHOERS 
Hamilton, John W. Waters, Purvis 

Price, John D. 

SADDLER 

Sanford, John B. 



PRIVATES, 
Allicood, Heber E. 
AsBY, James D. 
Barnett, Jesse C 
Baynor, Dennis S. 
Beacham, Clayton 
Boyd, Jesse 
Boyd, Justus E. 
Brookshire, Fred B. 
Canady, Alonzo O. 
Chase, Wright A. 
Cleary, Wi .son 
Corey, Benjamin R. 
Corey, John J. A. 
Cox, Herbert 
Cox, Miles O. 
Cutler, Ralph J. 
Davis, Ralph T. 
Eborn, Byron T. 
fulk, eckle 
Fulford, Reginald C. 
Gattis, Robert 
GoDDARD, Roy D. 
GosNELL, Howard 



FIRST CLASS 
Hales, Pete 
Hamilton, Henry N. 
Janoski, Joe C. 
Jones, John T. 
Leary, Sam E. 
Lewis, Charles F. 
Meekins, John L. 
Mills, Aaron 
Myers, Willie C. 
Pait, Ippie C. 
Preddy, Leonadus L. 
Ratcliff, Wiley J. 
Sawyer, Grover E. 
Singleton, Albert L. 
Skittletharpe, Dewey 
Sullivan, Sam A. 
Swain, Robert S. 
Swindell, Charlie B. 
Tankard, Bruce D. 
Warren, William H. 
Willis, Aurelius H. 
WooLARD, Daniel R. 
^'ates. Rover J. 



Arrowood, Isaac A. 
Baker, Guy 
Baynor, Howard M. 
Bonner, George L., Jr. 
Boyd, Claudius A. 
Brown, Thad 
Campbell, James H. 
Coney, Houston 
Celbusky, John 
Chapman, Clark 
Cratch, William T. 
Cox, Edward C. 
Davenport, John T. 
Dorgan, James A. 
Ewell, William B. 
Elkins, Harvey L. 
Fletcher, Alfred C. 
Fling, Dever C. 
Garrison, Lloyd 
Giles, Rollin L. 
GosNELL, Carl 
Green, Tillman L. 
Guthrie, Horace T. 
Hardison, Charlie W. 
Harris, Homer I. 
Harris, Clayton H. 
Harrington, Ronald J. 
Hart IS, Monroe C. 
Hoffman, Earl J. 
Hopkins, Thomas . 
Jefferson, William M. 
Kelley, Wiley H. 
King, Alton E. 
Leary, Charles J. 
Letchworth, Floyd T. 
Mathews, Otis A. 
Marines, Andrew G. 
McCafferey, Edward J. 
McKeel, James T. 
McKinney, Robert W. 



Moore, Lonzer 
Moore, Ernest L. 
MuLLiNS, Loyd J. 
Newman, Phillip E. 
Orr, Luther 
Patterson, Ernest R. 
Pew, Sam 
Pinkham, John R, 
PiTTARD, Raleigh C. 
Redmon, Charles B. 
Richards, John L. 
Reeder, Lester L. 
Roper, William B. 
Rowe, Cephus 
Sanderson. Witmel F. 
Singleton, Fred W. 
Slade, George J. 
Spruill, Moye W. 
Stephens, Willia 
Stokes, William A. 
Stripling, Joseph L. 

SlONEHAM, HaRTWELL 

St. Clair, Oscar 

Swank, William 
Taylor, Bonnie K. 
Thompson. John D. 
Thomas, Lore H. 
Thomas, Josh B. 
Vanpelt, Albert 
Warren. Mack D. 
Weston, John H. 
Weston, Ray R. 
Wheeler, Clarence 
Wiggins, Lan M. 
Williams, William E. 
Woolard, Charlie W. 
WooLARD, Millard E. 
Mars. Johnnie 
PiLLEY, George P. 
Smith, Arthur M. 
Smith, Charles A. 



Attached 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Blount, William A., Jr. 



Willis. David R. 



Allicood. John W. 
Alarcon. Aucusto 
Ankle, Stephen L. 



PRIVATES 

Morris, Henry C. 
Moore. Beverly B. 
Moore, Edward G. 



SERGEANTS 

FULCHER, BURNIE E. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 
Potter, Baker W. 

MECHANIC 
Corson, Nelson M. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 
Boyd, John F. Johnson, David R. 

Boyd, Heber G. Lucas, James C. 



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BATTERY C 

CAPTAIN 
McLendon, Lennox P. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 
Gattis, Samuel M., Jr. Sjmmons, Enock B. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 
Chapman, Andrew J, Works, Charles E. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Carroll, Joseph J. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Moore, DeWitt T. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
Atwater, Roland L. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Thompson, William R. 



Mann, Weaver G. 
Warren, Willard J. 
Dixon, Wyatt T. 
Lawson, William L. 
Bradsher, John H. 



SERGEANTS 

Pearson, June E. 
Andrews, Charles L. 
NowELL, Will C. 
Ashe, John G. 



Benson, Hubert H. 
Glass, Littleton J. 
Davis, Calvin L. 
Featherston, George T. 
Poythress, Leary p. 
Hunt, Clarence M. 
"^'ates, Grover C. 
Lanius, Radcliffe E. 
Bypum, Claude R. 
Enock, Julius 
White, Joseph A. 
McQuEARY, Ralph 



CORPORALS 

BuRCH, Wallace C. 
Latta, Samuel T., Jr. 
Wilson, Ollie C. 
O'Briant, Elijah C. 
HuDciNs, John G., Jr. 
Massey, Ira C. 
Strauchan, William R. 
Peterson, Julius A. 
Wrenn, Earl R. 
Brocden, William K. 
Latta, John W. 



SERGEANT 
Shepard, Leland C. 

SADDLER 

EuBANKS, Willie S. 

HORSESHOERS 
Roberts, Dufford I. Sparrow, Marion B. 

Ray, Atlas M. 

CHIEF MECHANIC 
Temple, Hubert L. 

MECHANICS 
O'Brien, Ben Copeland, Wallace V. 

BUGLER 
Allen, Jordan W. 



PRIVATES, 
Baum, Andrew 
Berry, Jerome G. 
Blake, Walter L. 
Bradsher, Landon C. 
Byland, Carl E. 
Clayton, Colonel S. 
Coleman, George L. 
CoLEY, Ernest 
Conway, George W. 
Cook, Thomas R. 
Cummings, Captain 
Evans, John S. 
Gates, Thomas G. 
Gentry, Roy J. 
Glenn, William B. 
Hall, Tolbert 
Hodge, John W. 



FIRST CLASS 
Jones, Daniel R. 
McFarland, Frank H. 
McKinney, Ummie L. 
Martin, Elbert W. 
Martin, Robert W. 
Norwood, Grady P. 
Norwood, Lewis 
Pendergraft. Lacy E. 
Phillips, Charlie P. 
Porterfield, George F. 
Ricgsbee, James J. 
Stephens, John F. 
Strickland, Clarence M. 
SuiTT, Volnar R. 
Warren, John W. 
Williams, Ernest E. 
Winberry, Mack D. 



Hundley, Herod H. 
McCauley, John W. 



COOKS 

Burns, William C. 
Reeves, Norman O. 



Adcock, Edwin W. 
Atwater, Frank P. 
Baker, Andrew J. 
Baker, Brantley F. 
Bailey, Otho M. 
Bailey, William G. 
Beal, Terrell B. 
Bobbitt, Louis R. 
Boone, Harvey F. 
Buchanan, Elbert W, 
Caldwell, Oliver R. 
Canady, George A. 
Gates, Thomas W. 
Cheek, Dewitt G. 
Ciancio, Giuseppe 
Clark, Elmer E. 
Cole, Fred C. 
Cooper, Martin I. 
Cox, Walter W. 
Crabtree, Ova W. 
Creech, Willie H. 
Crew, Early E. 
Davis, Clarence V. 
Davis, John T. 
Dixon, Jasper A. 
Dyson, Adam T. 
Earnhardt, Very B. 
Fortenberry, Jeff T. 
Fowler, Charlie 
Foushee, Phillip A. 
Franklin, Frank C. 
Gilleland, Loyd M. 
Glenn, Richard 
Grady, John 
Gray, Staley E. 
Hackney, Mike G. 
Harward, Jesse 
Harward, Joseph L. 
Hefner, Sherrill L. 



PRIVATES 

Long, Perlyman 
Malone, James C. 
Moore, Julius L. 
McBane, Premier S. 
McBroom, William U. 
Newsome, Leonard 
Neville, Robert 
Oakley, William 
Owen, Edd B. 
Paschall, Sam 
Pate, William G. 
Pendergraft, Leroy W. 
Pendergrass, Robert B. 
Pendergrass, Henry 
Pierce, Walter 
PoLLA, John 
Price, Robert L. 
Pritchard, John 
Pry, Paui C. 
Richards, Hughey J. 
Riley, Yancey T. 
Rimmer, Calvin W. 
RiMMER, Robert L. 
Robbins, Willis H. 
Roberts, Ernest 5. 
Rogers, Ernest R. 
Rogers, Harry W. 
Rosso, Ernest 

SCHAMBERG, WiLLIAM 

Schmeltz, Gurney 
Secule. Martin 
Shields, Jesse C. 
Smith, Lester V. 
Stansbury, John R. 
Stevens, Bill 
Thomas, Bento:< 
Thomas, Floyd 
Thomas, George F. 
Touchstone, Chester H. 



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Hubbard, James O. 
James, Smith 
Keith, Hudie C. 
Keith, Wade H. 
Lane, William C. 
Latta, Moses j. 
Long, Gibbons 



TowRY, Henry C. 
X'iCrCERS, William M. 
VuNCANNON, Lawrence D. 
WicGS, William E. 
Waggoner, Herman A. 
Boone, David J. 
GusMus, Frank J. 



Maner, June S. 
Minor. Joseph H. 



SERGEANT 
Wills, Charles B. 

PRIVATE, FIRST CLASS 
Vauchan, Stephen E. 

BATTERY D 
CAPTAIN 

V'airin. Nugent B , Jr. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 
Baucham, William E. Dixon, Richard D. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 
Chiles, William T. Schmidt, Richard D. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Crowell, Andrew B. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Blalock, Balfour C. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Williams, Moses W. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
Huntley, Franklin B. 



BoBBiTT, Nero T. 
Wilson, Percy N. 
Williams, Fred E. 
Laney, Charles H. 
Hutchinson, James 
BovLiN, James G. 

Gaddy, Wilburn E. 
Austin, John W. 
Austin, Meak E. 
Hayes, James R. 
LowERY, Sidney E. 
McManus, Horace 
Knapp, Edson W. 
Robinson, John A. 
Robinson, Edwin C. 
Lang, James C. 

CoAN, George P. 
Driscoll. Jeremiah 

Gay, Raymond R. 
Moseley, Lee 



SERGEANTS 

Foster, Clyde A. 
Woods, Bailey R. 
Price, Lloyd 
Eubanks, Benjamin F. 
H. Harmen, John O. 

CORPORALS 

Nelson, Peter O. 
Tipton, David C. 
Clontz, Ernest J. 
Carlton, Ellis 
Hinson, James J. 
Heath, Albert G. 
LocKEY, Clyde T. 
Niven, Thomas L. 
Smith, Edgar H. 
Stephenson, Silas R. 

COOKS 

Porter, Claude B. 
Teal, Fred L. 

HORSESHOERS 

Starnes, James W. 



MECHANICS 

Ensminger, Lewis B. 

SADDLER 
Rivers, Alfred R. 

BUGLER 
Phipps, Charles I. 



PRIVATES, 
Adams, John B. 
Austin, Oscar B. 
Benton, Sebron L. 
BiTTLE, John F. 
Brooks, Ben 
Broom, Joseph A. 
Cacle, William C. 
CoLiiNS, James W. 
Eddins, John E. 
Frazier, Leonard 
Gaddy, Thomas C. 
Gash, Charles S. 
Griffin, John C. 
Harrington, John G. 
Hildebrand, James F. 
Huntley, Frank L. 
KiRBY, Julian D. 
Lewis, Julian E. 
McGaha, John 
Merrell, Allen J. 
Neighbors. Tom N. 



Baker, William 
Ballard, John P. 
Ballard, Lewis 
Bass, Edward C. 
Belk, Luther L. 
Belk, Robert D. 
Bressett, David 
Brinkley, Marvin 
Bryant, Willie L. 
Burney, Franklin C 
Butcher, Wince 
Byrne, James J. 
Carpenter, Alonza 
Coan, Flow C. 
Cole, Adolphus S. 
Cook, Harry O. 
Davis, John B. 
Davis, William M. 
Derrick, James Q. 
DuLA, Robert B. 
Duke, James B. 
Edwards, Samuel J. 
Elfgen, Henry, Jr. 
Elias, Edward E. 
English, Archie 
Erwine, Edward J., 



FIRST CLASS 
Niven, Smith O. 
Plyler, Isom R. 
Preslar, Gilbert 
Price, Joseph M. 
Redfearn, James D. 
Reynolds, Victor H. 
Rice, Anderson G. 
Roe. Kirby T. 
Rogers, Ellison Y. 
Rule, Archie D. 
Russell, Joe 
Saltz, Fanning A. 
Sells, George S. 
Smathers, Lawrence M. 
Smith, George N. 
Thomas, James F. 
Wicker, Andrew V. 
Williams, Edmund D. 
Arwood, Wiley J. 
Bailey, Charles C. 



PRIVATES 

Knotts, Lee R. 
Larocque, Adam 
Laughter, Kimzie 
Lewis, John I. 
Lively, John E. 
Lowery, Dewey T. 
McClure, Reben C. 
McRae, Henry E. 
Mankins, Walter A. 
Meisenheimer, Martin M. 
Morris, William M. 
Moseley. Frank W. 
McCoRKLE, John W. 
MuLLis, Roy P. 
Myers, William 
Nickel, James H. 
O'Brien, Condie A. 
O'Neal, Eugene J. 
Northern, Orba R. 
Packer. Ernest T. 
Parker. James B. 
Powell, Eleby D. 
Powers, Henry 
Pratt. Jesse J. 
Repe, Roy C. 
Jr. Rice. Walter 



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EsTES, Roy E. 
Evans, Glen C. 
Evans, Sue 
Freeman, Dewey M. 

FUNDERBURKE, JuLlAN H. 

Gaddy, Kemp 
Gacner, Ovide 
Garland, Thomas 
Goodwin, Fletcher J. 
Gordon, James P. 
Griffith, Hugh W. 
Griggs, Henry B. 
Hammonds. William R. 
Hart, Charles N. 
Harwood, Walter M. 
Helms, Clarence H. 
Henderson, Aaron D. 
Hendricks, Carl 
Honeycutt, John F. 
Jones. James C. 
King, Lewis H. 
King Ernest 



RocALSKY, Sylvester 
Ryan, William F. 
Shelton, Early 
Smith, Bernard C. 
Smith. Eary T. 
Stewart. Charles L. 
Stigge. Julius 
Tarlton, Isaiah 
Taylor. Owen 
Thomas, Las 
Thomas, Paul 
Thompson, Ernest A. 
Todd, Joseph B. 
Troutman, Harry G. 
West, Jones C. 
Williams, Clemmie T. 
Wilson, Fred E. 
WiNEcoFF, Mack W. 
WiNFREE, Carroll W. 
^'ork, Grady 
Zabiecalski. Anthony 



BATTERY E 

CAPTAIN 
Crayton, Louis B. 

FIRST LIEUTENANT 
Duncan, William B. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 
Barnett, Marshall S. Dosker, Cornelius 

Boswell, Russell N. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Tuttle, Ira G. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Annas, Perry D. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Laxton, Bynum 

STABLE SERGEANT 
Smith, Herbert G. 



Craven, Ronald A. 
LoviLLE, Romulus R. 
Suddreth, Thomas L 
Greer, George D. 
Ingle, Herbert F. 
Elrod, Roby E. 



SERGEANTS 

Annas, Rufus A. 
Engleblom, Emil S. 
Leonard, Rex E. 
Smelser, Guy S. 
Williams, Charles H. 



Dixon, Morton K. 
McGoWAN, RuFus S. 
Gross, James T. 
Teacue, John G. 
Shuford, Russell R. 
O'DoNNELL, Thomas C 
IsBELL, Homer L. 
Downs, Joe B. 
Deal, Everette P. 



CORPORALS 

Pennell, Carl W. 
Sherrill, Knox F. 
Killian, Robley C. 
Gross, Cleve L. 
Boyle, Lavan H. 
Hood, James B. 
Wright. Orville P. 
Foley, Martin J. 



CHIEF MECHANIC 
Wright, Wilkes W. 

MECHANICS 
Arnolds, Harvey N. Winkler, John B. 

Underdown, Milton A. 

SADDLER 
Childers, Richard C. 

HORSESHOERS 

Honeycutt, Robert L. 



Austin. Leonard 



Bean, Walter L. S. 
Bush, Thurman 

Childers. Willie C. 
Dickey, Florian F. 



COOKS 

Curtis, Burton M. 
Curtis, Joe A. 

BUGLERS 

Melton, William E. 



PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 



Alley, Arthur N. 
Anderson, James 
Andrews, Horace L. 
Andrews, Roby L. 
Austin, Junie 
Barber, Dedrich S. 
Barry, John F. 
Bailey, William T. 
Barnes, Marion G. 
Benfield, Oliver L. 
Carter, Foye C. 
Childers, Foye C. 
Church, Mindus J. 
Cook, Horace C. 
Clark, Henry C. 
Clark, Oliver L. 
Cline, Steril 
Davis, Ernest C. 
Elrod, Fred G. 
Fleming, William O. 
FoiLES, Herbert M. 
Hamilton. Roy B. 

Allen. Edward G. 
Allen. Charles D. 
Armstrong. James E. 
AsHwoRTH. Ted 
Baker. Irving M. 
Barnes. Stewart J. 
Beard. Lloyd 
Bradshaw. Robert L. 
Breecen. Luther 
Brown, Stewart T. 
Brown, Joseph C. 
Brown, Roby E. 
Cartwricht, Albert 
Cass, John H. 
Casey, John H. 
Church, Willard V. 



Hartley, Gwyn S. 
Johnson, Ralph L. 
Keller, Lee O. 
Lindsay, Charles S. 
Lowder, William C. 
LoviNs, Grover C. 
McGee, Julius L. 
Melton, Steel F. 
Moore, Arthur K. 
Moore, Parks C. 
Muncher. William C. 
Munday, Lynn M. 
Nelson, Albert J. 
Pitts, Lester J. 
Seehorn. William W. 
SiQUEiRos, Francisco C. 
Smith. Jesse R. 
TuRNMiRE, Ralph D. 
Weathers, Bailey G. 
Weathers, Harrison A. 
White, Barney R. 

PRIVATES 

Jennings, Thomas A. 
Jones, Elmer 
Journican, Warner 
Kelley. Thomas F. 
Kluttz, William P. 
Krepps. David C. 
Lail. Alex R. 
Lockamy. Eli 
McAlpin. Cass R, 
McCluney, John H. 
Mahaffey, Otis 
Marley, James L. 
Maltba, Russell 
Melton. Torrence 
Melvin. Raymond P. 
Mullee, Thomas E. 



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Chavez. Carlos 
Coffey, Grover C. 
Cook, Hamilton H. 
Cooper, George D. 
Clark. George F. 
Craig. Boone 
Crump, William G. 
Dixon, William W. 
Duff, Jamis F. 
Edmisten, Hansford 
Ernest, Will A. 
Evans, Earl O. 
Ferguson, Theodore D. 
FiLENTO, James B. 
Fischer, Alphonse J. 
Gause, George M. 
GoBLE, Floyd Q. 
Gray, Gecrce 
Hahn, Clifford 
Hailey, Norval H. 
Halcombe, Frank 
Hall, Guy 
Harris, Evan A. 
Haywood, William L. 
Hewett. Henry R. 
Hodge?, Edward G. 
Hoke, Edgar E. 
Hoyle, Bryant 
Hughes, Harry E. 
Hutchinson, Charles 
Ingle. Oscar M. 
Jackson. Claude E. 



Moore, Granville S. 
Norman. Jim J. 
Parsons, Joseph M. 
Ray, 03CAR W. 
Roach, Gecrge L. 
Rodcers, Sinclair 
Robinson, Thomas M. 
RcoF, Floyd A. 
Sandirs, Fred 
Sanders, Haywood 
Sellers. Wyatt A . 
Sides. Willis V. 
Smith, Thomas O. 
Story, Romulus L. 
Steel, John 
SuDDFETH, Horace B. 
Tate, Vann 
Teacue, Oliver M. 
Teague. John R. 
Teague. Claude E. 
Thompson. John H. 
Travis, Frank V. 
Treisch, Loyd 
Tayior, George W. 
Turner, William W. 
Vannoy, Arthur W. 
Watson, Willard 
Whitesides, Jim 
Winebarger, Walter H. 
WooDELL, Hector J. 
Wright. Baxter 
Yearby. Robert V. 



BATTERY F 

CAPTAIN 
Morrison, Reid R. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 
Allison, Eugene Do:ge, James P., Jr. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 
Hamilton, Carl C. McManus, James F. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Sappenfield, Roy C. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Powell, Joseph C. 

SUPPLY' SERGEANT 
Fink, Eugene D. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
LiPE, Jacob W. 



Mills, Lonnie N. 
Newell, Henry B. 
Sherrill, Paul M. 
Ritch, Charles F. 
Choaten, McLin S. 



SERGEANTS 

Kelly, Jesse R. C. 
KiNCAiD. Julius N. 
Hill. Thomas M. 
Clarey. Ernest C. 
Beard, Joseph R. 



Costner, William T, 
McNeely, James F. 
Potts, Leon A., Jr. 
Wrenn, Eugene L. 
Ritchie, Ralph L. 
Roegers, John B. 
Stouch, Samuel T. 
Cornelius. William 
Walkup, Samuel L. 
Howard. James C. 
Sellers, Charles G. 
Donaldson. Eugene 



CORPORALS 

Ward, Grady N. 

Caldwell, Robert V., 

Focus, Otway C. 

Williford, Brice J. 

Johnson, William S. 

Caldwell, Raymond 

Alexander, James C. 
E. IvEY, Henry W. 

Mancum. Curtis W. 

Query, Stafford N. 

Campbell. Frank A. 
J. Hope, Clarence C. 



Jr. 



CHIEF MECHANIC 
Duckwo-i^th, Ralph J. 

MECHANICS 

Newell, William G. 



Harwell Jesse L. 
Kerr, Guilford A. 



HORSESHOERS 
Jessup, Luther A. Vernon, Wiley G. 

Morefield, Charlie 

SADDLER 
Pratt, Lester D. 



Bennett, Joe C. 
Garren, Frank M. 



Simms, Eskell L. 
SwANGiM. Frank 



COOKS 

Moore. Lonnie 
Tickle, Aurther 

BUGLERS 

X^'eddincton, Frank 



PRIVATES. 
Alexander, Millard S. 
Alexander, Robert D. 
Anderson, Baxter W. 
Bradley, Jakes N. 
Brown, Houston G. 
Brown, Marshall F. 
BuMGARTEN. Edward R. 
Cathey, Henry M. • 
Deaton, Homer W. 
Dui ing, Harry E. 
Ebel, Otto H. 
Fink, Clarence L. 
Graham, Elbert L. 
Harroway. Bayloss S. 
Isenhower. Smiley 
Johnson. Mason W. 
Kerr, Ed H. 
KupER, John J. 
Lacy, Thomas A. 
Linn, Harold C. 
Martinez, Jack 
Miller, Rufus C. 
Moore, Howard E. 
Morris, Leo L. 



FIRST CLASS 

Nelson, William F. 
Perkins, Arthur W. 
Pharr, Samuel L. 
Phillips. Martin W. 
Potts, Lewis 
Rkoies. Carl L. 
RiLENHOUR. Homer L. 
Russell. William F. 
Saddler, Wildan 
Sappenfield, James A. 
Savage, Frank 
Smith, Donald P. 
Smith. Martin L. 
Teague. Arthur 
Teague, Thomas V»'. 
Thompson, Herbert W. 
Tilly. William W. 
Thompkinson. Francis B. 
Turner. James W. 
Wadsworth. John B. 
White. James A. 
WiNGARD, Ralph J. 
Wyatt, William D. 



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Albright, Henry L. 
Ballard, Joseph C. 
Beam, Elmer N. 
Bell, Walter A. 
pQLicK, Harry W. 
Brown, Claude C. 
Burke, Joseph E. 
Caldow, Alexander R 
Caccarelli, Leno 
Christie, Rome G. 
Christenbuarv, Ed 
Cobbler, Percy D. 
Cole, Robertson B. 
CoLEY, Raymond C. 
Cowand, Alley 
Crabb, John H. 
Craig, John M. 
Crews, Ernest W. 
Davis, Burpee 
Edsil, Edgar G. 
Edwarcs, William L. 
Fisher. Clyde J. 
Fisher, David F. 
Florence, John P. 
Fortune, Carl L. 
Fortune, Claude E. 
Fortune, George W. 
Fowler, Oliver 
Fulham, John M. 
Gillespie, Claude E. 
Gellespie, Luther W. 
Goodson, Bob 
Goss, DoY E. 
Gravely, Charles B. 
Head, William H. 
Heglar, Everett J. 
Heglar, Lester A. 
Helm, Lafayette H. 
Hendley, Lindsey M. 
Hill, Hamilton O. 
Inman, John P. 
Johnston, Samuel C. 
Jones, Bossv 
Kennerly, Clarence 
King, Stephen B. 
Knowles, Carl 



PRIVATES 

Lehman, John S. 
LovETT, William M. 
Markey, Robert C. 
Maroney, Thomas J. 
Marcus, Arthur J. 
Martin, F'rank 
Mahew, Prescott 
McCarty, Amos 
McLaughlin, Neal 
Mekcier, Alfred 
Michael. Ernest L 
Montooth, Frank L. 
Moore, John P. 
Morris, John R. 
MosiER, Otis 
McNicHOLES, James M. 
Neal, Jim 
Newton John W. 
Norwood, Olin N. 
Owens, Bob 
Philemon, Clarence L. 
Powell, Will 
Pruitt, Ira T. 
RoziER, Alex Z. 
Sherrill, Glenn Z. 
Shoultz, Colbert J 
Simon, Benjamin W. 
Simons, Fletcher 
SiMPKiNs, Jesse E. 
Smith, Henry M. 
Steinbach, Frederick 
Stutts, Brooks L. 
Swangim, Doll 
Tilly, John J. 
Thrift, Ulysses V. 
Turner, Arthur C. 
Van Nortwick, David T 
Van Pelt, Carl G. 
Vickers, Walter S. 
Wardlow, Robert 
Webster, Charles A. 
Weddington, John C. 
Womack, Clifton P. 
Wilson, Thomas H. 
Young, Miles H. 



HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 

CAPTAIN 

BoYCE, Erskine E. 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 
Bennett, Horace C. Whitaker, William P. 

Mears, Christian E. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 
Crenshaw, William A. Guion, Owen H. 

REGULAR SERGEANT-MAJORS 
Lambert, Jacob E. Dimitte, Laudie E. 



BAND SERGEANT-MAJORS 
Pollard, Hugh C. Capps, Marvin M. 

BAND LEADER 
KozAK, James O. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Henderson, Ralph L 

ASSISTANT BAND LEADER 
Troostwyk, Leo 

SERGEANT BUGLER 
McGuiRT. Robert G. 

BAND SERGEANTS 
Thomas, Raymond D. Huff, William N. 

Wood, Fred W. Crick. Leonard D. 

COLOR SERGEANTS 
Huntley, Wilbon O. Taylor, George N. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Brewer, Charles E. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Burger. Karl P. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
Batchelcr, David C. 



SERGEANTS 



boseman, luthew w. 
Graham. George 
Mallard, Liston L. 
Edmundson, Marvin M. 
Corey, Arthur B. 



Mauldin Roman L. 
Harris, Talton E. 
Collie, William Y. 
Heins, Max T. 
Dorsette, Carey E. 



Fleming, George P. 
Knott, George W. 
Moore, Elmer B. 
Ross, Hugh L. 
Westbrcok, Oliver , 
Hood, Carl L. 
Johnson, Walter C. 
Leslie, John T. 
McGuire, Neal W. 
McQueen, Daniel M 
Nash, Sam N. 
Pate, Bernice M. 
RussEL, Benjamin S. 
Hawley, William A. 



CORPORALS 

Valentine, Itimous T. 

Hilliard, James B. 

Allen, William H. 

Chapman, John S. 
\. Taylor, Eugene McA. 

Wilson, Leo G. 

O'Connor, Charles A. 

Coughenour, William 

Phillips, Walter S. 

Harrington, Eugene W. 

CoRLEE, Fred E. 

Edwards, Robert H. 

Jeffress, Irvin H. 

Benoy. Arthur W. 



BAND CORPORALS 
Jones, Thaddeus E. Younger, Edgar 

Miller, William A. Holt, Fred M. 

MECHANIC 
Lewis, Leroy W. 

HORSESHOERS 
PoE, Albert Eubanks, Richard D. 

SADDLER 
Hill, Ernest W. 



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Page three hundred seventeerj 



SuTHER, Charles A. 
Denton, Allen 



COOKS 

Bell, John V. 



MUSICIANS, FIRST CLASS 
Crumpton, Grover C. Davis, Earl M. 

MoNCRiEFF, Phillip W. Slither, Colon B. 

Danielev, Joseph W. 

MUSICIANS, SECOND CLASS 



Lentz, John W. 
Matthewson, Paul J. 
Farrincton, Marshall 
Graham, Thomas I. 
Lynch, John M. 

RoBBiNs, Carl L. 



Messer, Pressie L. 
Demarcus, William N. 
Gardner, Loris W. 
Miles, Eli C. 

BUGLERS 

Vincent, Tracev A. 



PRIVATES, 
Atkins, Thomas N. 
Abboud, James 
Brantley, Sherwood 
Blum, Frederick L. 
Brookshire, John W. 
Carter, Emmett W. 
Chandler, Martin G. 
Coop, John A. 
Cone, Levi T. 
Clark, Nathan C. 
Faletti, Chris 
Gatlin, Samuel B. 
Highsmith, Albert Z. 



Baucham, Seth B. 
Blomberc, Alex 
Bradley, Fred L. 
Brown, Frank j. 
Carraway, Ezra A. 
Chandler, Elisha 
CuMM'NGs, George D. 
Doyle, Henry V. 
Gavin, Lewis A. 
Green, William B. 
GuRGANious, John B. 
Hale, Arthur E. 
Hall, Robert F. 
Heiss, Walter M. 
Hamilton, Watie F. 
Jones, Linwood L. 
Johnson, Orris E. 
Kelleym, Grady 
King, Herbert N. 
Kitchens, Charles L. 
Klucker, Howard E. 
Klutz, Harvey A. 
Mason, Zack C. 
Matheney, James T. 
Matheney, John E. 
McElroy. Earl 



FIRST CLASS 
Knudsen, John T. 
Lambert, Lacy T. 
LowREY, Wesley S. 
Marppey. John 
McQueen, David F. 
MosELEY, Thomas G. 
Perry, Williford 
Pulley, Claud H. 
Rouse, Paisley E. 
Siiarpe, Cecil A. 
Stancil, Sim C. 
Thomas, Frank, Jr. 
Tilley, Alvah H. 



PRIVATES 

Moore, Alexander S. 
Murray, Charles A. 
MiTCHNER, Robert K. 
Mizzell, Charlie M. 
Moore. Granville K. 
Mori, Emile E. 
McWhorter. Olin S. 
Overbolster, John F. 
Phillips, Weaver 
Shelton, James M. 
SiGMAN, Robert V. 
Smith, Will 
Smith, Royce C. 
Smith, Edgar L. 
Smyre, Ernest D. 
Rohrbauch, Paul M. 
Thomas, Robert L. 
Thornburg, Herbert N. 
Whitworth, Robert V. 
White, William H. 
Wilson, Walter L. 
Walters, George F. 
Wagoner, William G. 
Rush, William E. 
Young, Ernest E. 



SUPPLY COMPANY 

Officers 

CAPTAIN 
Fletcher, Arthur L. 

FIRST LIEUTENANT 
Lonergon, Joseph 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 
Bolt, John Stackpole, Albert H. 

LiNCLE, John C. 

Enlisted Personnel 

REGULAR SUPPLY SERGEANTS 
Chance, William H. Shaling, George W. 

FIRST SERGEANT 
Conrad, William J. 

SERGEANTS 

Reid, William N. 

STABLE SERGEANT 
Bridcers, Otho T. 

MESS SERGEANT 
Long, Clyde C. 

SUPPLY SERGEANT 
Sauls, Harvin A. 

CORPORALS 

Brassfield, James Erwood, Charles W. 

Donovan, Claude C. Hall, Melvin I. 



Jones, Barney L. 



Brewer, Henry H. 
Galloway. Johnie E. 
Cra:g, DeWitt 



COOKS 

HiATT, AlVIN L. 

KiRKMAN, William C. 
Tally, Roy B. 



HORSESHOERS 
Johnson, Nathan Martin, Joseph E. 

Kenneday, Fred H. 

SADDLERS 
Burton, Henry T. Ray, .Samuel 



Allen, Jessie 
Cutts, Lewis E. 

Allison, Dolph 
Barr. Ed 

BiLLiNCSLEY. Frank 
Blagbourn, Walter 
Brown, Emery N. 
Brown, Wilbur W. 
Brown, William D. 
Burr. Iquan O. 
Garden, Lee 
Clontz, Averv B. 
Collins, Thomas C. 
Crawford, John F. 
Crump, Pet 



MECHANICS 

LiiLY, Lyman B. 

WAGONERS 

Jones, Kallie 
Kexiah, Richard A. 

T. KOONCE, WOODLEY J. 

A. McBrioe, Bartlette 

McKeithan, William R. 
Mabe, James T. 
Morgan, Monroe 
Nash, Jessie R. 
Payne, James O. 
Perry, Thomas 
Phillips, Charles N. 
Blyler, Appleton 
Reber, Guy 



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Davey, Norman E. 
FiNTON, Guy 
Fowler, Mont A. 
Gibson, Joel T. 
Gore, James V. 
Griffie, Arthur W. 
Hainline, Lester E. 
Harney. Edward L. 
Hart, John G. 
Havnes, Clarence A. 
Henley, Marvin 
Hudson, William R. 

PRIVATES, 
Edwards, Joseph O. 
McNeely, Robert L. 
Murray, Samuel G. 



Seeman, Leroy R. 
Sides, William A. 
Southerland, Linden 
Steele, Pinkney J. 
Stewart, Ben C. 
Tyndall, Willie 
Wells, Rolin V. 
White, Thomas G. 
Whittincton, Charles C. 
Williams, Coon W. 
ZiECE, Walter O. 



FIRST CLASS 
Saueman, Robert P. 
Southerland, Elbert F. 
Williams, James F. 



Alfonso, Gimi 
Bass, John J. 
Bilderback, Sidney B. 
Bloodworth, James H 
BoYETTE, William L. 
Brookshire. John W. 
Calahan, Arthur L. 
Carpenter, James W. 
Calvin, Cleveland 
Edwards, Charles A. 



PRIVATES 

FuRR, Titus L. 
Haney, Oscar C. 
Mendenhall, Sir Walter 
Moffitte, Lacy A. 
McGan, Eugene 
RoBERsoN, Phillip R. 
Taylor, Jolly C. 
TowNsEND, Walter 
Wardlaw. Robert 
Young, Miles H. 



Enlisted Ordnance Corps Attached to 
I 1 3th Field Artillery 

ORDNANCE SERGEANT 

Mitchell, Adrian S. 

SERGEANT 
Vaughn, Roy L. 

CORPORALS 

McGuiRT, John B. 



Byrd, Walter A. 



PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 
Davis, Charles R. Helmes, William C. 



Causey, Robert H. 
Crotzer, William E. 
Henderson, Carl R. 
Hooks, William H. 



PRIVATES 

Perry, George B. 
Shepherd, Barry W. 
Haywood, William J. 
Ratcliff, Zeno O. 



SANITARY' DETACHMENT 

MAJOR 

Pridgen, Claude L. 

CAPTAIN 
Wagner, Isaac R. 

FIRST LIEUTENANT 
Hoffmann, John G. 

SERGEANT, FIRST CLASS 
Mitchell, Joseph H. 

SERGEANT 
Futrelle, William L. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

BuRRiss, John E. Russell, Samuel T. 

Fowler, Paul R. Salling, Aaron T. 

Register, Harry B. Shol,!r, Ralph L. 



PRIVATES 



FicK, Ferdinand D. 

MOOREHEAD, GeORGE E. 

Morrison, Levi A. 

Moss, ROCHEL 

Norfleet, Frank P. 
Oldner, Noah 
Perry, Walter N. 



Ponder, Henry 
Rogers, Dudley 
Sappenfield, Luther C. 
Smith, Clifford J. 
Stepp, Ernest F. 
Thomas, Miles E. 



Attached 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 
Gibbs, Wallace D. Spoon. Thomas L. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 
(Dental Assistant) 
Jones, Harmon L. Hornaday. Clyde H. 

VETERINARY DETACHMENT 

CAPTAIN 
Olthouse, Martin 

FIRST LIEUTENANT 
Hughes, William O. 

FARRIERS 
Brooks, Ralph Dalton, Chesley A. 

Jones, Raymond F. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 
Dellinger, Caswell V. Sitton, Mack R. 

PRIVATE 
Boyd, Henry E. 




HISTORY OF THE 
105TH TRENCH MORTAR 

BATTERY 




Many Strange Devices Were Employed 

(1) German submanne Interned m a Spanish port. (2) Steel goggles and cham mail worn by French tank corps men to protect eyes and 
mouth from steel splmters. (3) The deadly Ge.man 77, (4) Small French tank. (5) Boarding the transport at a French port. (6) Big British 
lank. (7) German guns captured by American troops. (8) Rear view of German 77. (9) American artillery horses being watered. (10) En- 
trance to a v.Uage protected by rolls of barbed wire. (II) Telephoning under difficulties. (12) Platform or mount of the long range gun 

m,'. ..Tr- ,' ^ •* ^'^"^"""' ^"^^'^ '^' 26th and 1st American Divisions joined hands across the St. Mihiel Salient on September 13, 
IVIO. (14) French tank destroyed by direct hit of German shell. 



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The 1 05th Trench Mortar Battery 



The 105th Trench Mortor Battery was orginally 
Troop D, Tennessee Cavalry, and served on the Mexi- 
can border, 1916-1917, as cavalry, under command 
of Captain Ambrose Gaines, of Knoxville. 

After the call for the European War, at Camp 
Sevier, S. C, the troop was changed to the 105 th 
Trench Mortar Battery, of the 30th Division, and 
assigned to the 55fh F. A. Brigade. 

It served with the 55th F. A. Brigade throughout 
the war, taking part in both the St. Mihiel and Meuse- 
Argonne Offensives. In the latter offensive the bat- 
tery was in position at the ruined village of Avocourt, 
the first line of the American Army. 

Captain Gaines was forced by illness to relinquish 
his battery and 1st Lieut. Thomas F. Hazen, Jr., 
was promoted to Captain and succeeded to the com- 
mand. 

The battery was in the march to Germany with the 
brigade, but was ordered home soon after entering the 
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, and arrived in the 
United States early in March, 1919, landing at New- 
port News. 

The original personnel of the old cavalry troop, men 
from Knoxville and vicinity, remained with the organi- 
zation throughout the war. 

A roster of the battery follows: 

Roster 105th Trench Mortar Battery 
CAPTAINS 

Gains, Ambrose Kingston Pike, Knoxville 

Hazen, Thomas F., Jr 527 Gay St., Knoxville 

FIRST LIEUTENANTS 

Payne, Lewis B 942 Temple Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Pennock, Vivian R 415 Coffman St., Longmoni, Colo. 

SECOND LIEUTENANTS 

Floyd, Julien F 215 Lovenia St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Hixon, Wallace W Daisy, Tenn. 

LoCKETT, Frank Knoxville, Tenn. 

FIRST SERGEANT 

StaNSBERRY, Fred L 843 S. 7lli St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

SERGEANTS 

Beagle, Lora C Whiteville, La. 

McCammon, William C 2832 Jackson Ave., Knoxville. 

Fair, Harrison 3315 Oak St., Cleveland, Tenn. 

Lenoir, Edward C 809 E. Main Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

TowLES, Samuel W Soulh Pittsburg. Tenn. 



Carr, Harry W Lincoln Park, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Gardner, Horace A Powell Station, Tenn. 

CoKER, Clay M Route I, Straw Plains, Tenn. 

Davidson, William P Shepherd, Tenn. 

Marshall, Arthur C South Pittsburg, Tenn. 

Stansbury, Frank R 843 S. 7th St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Divine, Harris W 606 S. Dargan St., Florence, S. C. 

CORPORALS 

Phillips, James R Soulh Pittsburg, Tenn. 

Cloud, Willie Route 3, Byington, Tenn. 

Johnson, Samuel B 1006 IsLnd Home Park, Knoxville 

Clark, Noah L 1514 Chestnut St, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Humphrey, John H 1006 S. 7th St, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Kirkpatrick, Bryan South Pittsburg, Tenn. 

Sharp, John M 1113 Euclid Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Phillips, Robert 1 Richard City, Tenn. 

Smith, Patterson B Wadley, Ala. 

Hunt, Louis D Madisonville, Tenn. 

Nelson, George. . . .595 E. 6th & Miller Ave., Spencer, Iowa 

Albright, Wallace D 652 Asylum St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Davis, Luther L Newport, Tenn. 

Vandergroff, Hobart 421 E. Anderson St., Knoxville 

Cobble, Ernest Big Lick, Tenn. 

Tennant, Ralph E Fort Dodge. Iowa 

Husky, Wm. B 1820 Forrest Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Dice, Harold F 762-L West End, Soulh Bend, Ind. 

Newport, Fletcher S Box 22, New River, Tenn. 

Rogers, Hugh C Route 4, Seymour, Tenn. 

Nichols, Frank G Sevierville, Tenn. 

PRIVATES, FIRST CLASS 

ToWLES, Charles M South Pittsburg. Tenn. 

Everett, Walker D Route 5, Maryville, Tenn. 

GuiNN, James A Route 7, Cleveland, Tenn. 

Stauffer, Delwarr E., 5029 Florence Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Kazmierzak. Andrew W 

1221 W. Sample St., South Bend, Ind. 

Lovelace, Leonard M Route 1, Powell Station, Tenn. 

Dunn, William E Route I, Shouns. Tenn. 

Maples, Lee R 1 145 Clyde St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

King, Walter G Route I , Monroe, Tenn. 

Clines, William T Route 4, Clinton, Tenn. 

Brown, John A Route 2, Hurricane Mills, Tenn. 

Smith, Arthur W Route 1, Bridgeport, Ala. 

Neely, Medford C Route I, Readyvillc, Tenn. 

Rainey, Richard R Route 2, Waverly. Tenn. 

Wells, William C 212 Arthur St., Knoxville. Tenn. 

Dawson, Earl K 1 109 Euclid Ave., Knoxville. Tenn. 

Baker, Samuel Winfield, Tenn. 

Arnwine, Glenmour R 903 Stone St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Mading, Robert H Route 2, Hickory, Ky. 

Covington, Hobart C 1610 Worth St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Gentry, Dewey R 126 E. Oldham Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Brannon, Joseph W Unaka, N. C. 



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Waymire, Claude F Sheffield, Ala. 

Collins, Fred 594 S. High Sl. Akron, Ohio 

Dates, John R Oakland, Tenn. 

Thomas, Wm. Kenneth Boyd's Creek, Tenn. 

Trotter, James O 633 Atlantic Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Phillips, Thomas J Prendergast, Tenn. 

KOPINSKI, Frank. 1301 S. Durham St., South Bend, Ind. 

Knox, Perry B Route 4, Decatur, Tenn. 

McChee, Karl E 630 5th St., Bristol, Tenn. 

Pratt, Frank 400 Otis St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Dahlgren, Elmer F 308 E. Ind. Ave., South Bend, Ind. 

Monday, Charlie R 936 Lane St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Brinkman, Gust C 313 W. Garst St., South Bend, Ind. 

Gibson, Arthur H Route I, Riceville, Tenn. 

Morgan, Will H Cleveland, Tenn. 

Ledbetter. William E Booz, Tenn. 

PRIVATES 

Reed, Harvey Route 5, Shelbyville, Tenn. 

Marchbanks, Henry I Black Rock, Ark. 

Devine, Francis X. . .431 Arlington St., Rocky Mount, N. C. 

McCall, Edward C Ill Elm St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Brady, Charles M Route 28, Dayton, Tenn. 

Bailey, Wm H Route 3, Kingston, Tenn. 

Fitch, Bronce I Route 7, Sweetwater, Tenn. 

Spencer, Walter Burlington Ave., Bristol, Conn. 

Davis, James H Route I, Straw Plains, Tenn. 

Stark, Leon Raff Clarion, Iowa 

Ross, Charles C Richard City, Tenn. 

Armstrong, Bert V Route 6, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Jones, Robert I Route 1, Shelbyville, Tenn. 

Carpenter, Robert A Route 6, Maryville, Tenn. 

Crumbliss, Roscoe C Richard City, Tenn. 

Jennings, Chester C Cartersville, Okla. 

Marshall, Richard H Route 7, Martin, Tenn. 

Evans, Clarence O Route 2, Lynchburg, Tenn. 

Johnson, Garwood D 55- A Newlon Ave., Camden, N. J. 

Sanders, Carroll Martin, Tenn. 

CleNDENING, Harvey T Route 2, Hendersonville, Tenn. 

Crabtree, Robert Route 3, Niola, Tenn. 

Allred, Carl Route 2, Monroe, Tenn. 

Cockran, Carl L Little Lot, Tenn. 

Leonard, Patrick M Route 4, McEwen, Tenn. 

Thomas, William A Route 4, Dayton, Tenn. 

CuMMiNGS, Edward Route 1, South Fork, Pa. 

White, Raymond C Neuberl, Tenn. 

Buckley, William F 4639 Carle:on St., Pittsburg, Pa. 

Malpass, Troy S Atkinson, N. C. 

Davis, Eddie M Lexington, Tenn. 

Pfeiffer, Charles L 117 W. 18th St., New York City 

Goddard, Maurice H Route 1, Rockford, Tenn. 

Allen, Theo N 228 1st St., Franklin, Tenn. 

Reed, Fletcher Route 1 , Alma, Ark. 

Turnham, Rollo E.. . .154 Washinclon Ave., Memphis, Tenn. 

Williams, Jesse Route 9, Sevierville, Tenn. 

Hedge, Roy A Coble, Tenn. 

Sawyer, Homer D Waukon, Iowa 

Lowe, Walter K Route 2, Beech Grove, Tenn. 



Carmack, Thomas M Phoenix, Ala. 

Carpenter, Merrick 1 State St., Wethersfield, Conn. 

Richard, Frank R 312 Dale Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. 

ClendenING, George L Route 2, Hendersonville. Tenn. 

Schwenke, Henry R 717 Marion St., Seattle, Wash. 

Storey. George W 4 Sheridan St., Lynn, Mass. 

Sheedy, Lawrence M Route I, Plaine, Wash. 

Schneider, Harry A Hartline, Wash. 

Sandwick, John R Mollustrunden Aalsund, Norway 

Terry, Louis Ernest Livingston, Tenn. 

Reichard, Howard E 902 E. Main St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Sullivan, Daniel F 6 Milk St., Worcester, Mass. 

Mason, Joseph W Siloam Springs, Ark. 

Crockett, Louis A Route 1, Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

CroleY, Jim Norcross, Tenn. 

Hamilton, Tom. . . 121'/4 S. Broadway, Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Helton, BenNIE S Route 1, Shelbyville, Tenn. 

Fortenberry, Dennie Route 14, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Clardy, Jack Route 9, Nashville, Tenn. 

Branson, Lloyd Prichard, Ala. 

Milsaps, James E Route 4, Loudon, Tenn. 

Bell, James L South Pittsburg, Tenn. 

Beathard, John R 

Room 15, Wautauga BIdg., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Sims, Henry C Route 2, Sparta, Tenn. 

McCales, Baker B Duck River, Tenn. 

Boyd, Biffle Waynesboro, Tenn. 

Stephenson. John C Garden City, Kan. 

Sanford, Raymond W 96 Rugar St., Plattsburg, N. Y. 

Martin, Charlie M 620 King St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Harvill, Jess M Route 1, Little Lot, Tenn. 

Sellers, Enoch 1918 Taylor St., Columbia, S. C. 

Ashe, John I Roule 5, Knoxville, Tenn. 

Bucey, Albert Woodbury, Tenn. 

Freeman, Samuel A Centerville, Tenn. 

McClaren, Robert L Vernon, Tenn. 

Phillips, Joe Clinton, Tenn. 

Brown, Thomas H Roule 2, Daylight, Tenn. 

Lamphere, Joseph M....308 Palmer St., Charles City, Iowa 

Simpson, Earl B 223 S. Central St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Holland, Edward M Roule 1, Burns, Tenn. 

Hall, William D Route 1, Deer Lodge, Tenn. 

Osteen, Howard C Chapel Hill, Tenn. 

Gibson, Edward L 103 Illinois St., Eldorado, III. 

Archambault, Clyde J 308 North St., South Bend, Ind. 

Morefield, Thomas L Route 1, Neva, Tenn. 

Thompson, Battie M Route 1, Burns, Tenn. 

Bradford, Leslie A 706 N. Poplar St., Charlotte, N. C. 

Davis, Charles E 736 E. Bronson St., South Bend, Ind. 

Jones, Vester Route 6, Liberty, Tenn. 

Malpass, Bob C Route 1, Ivanhoe, N. C. 

Nichols, Wallace W Sevierville, Tenn. 

Ralston, Henry Route 5, New Cumberland, W. Va. 

CHIEF MECHANICS 

Reese, Cleo P 928 Holslon St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

Hawkins, James R Route 1 , Kerrville, Tenn. 



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WAGONERS 

Edwards, Robert L Route 3, McEwen. Tenn. 

Rogers, William H Seymour, Tenn. 

Fritts, Herbert E Darlyville, Va. 

Hatfield, Hodge H 304 B St., Lenoir City, Tenn. 

Mitchell, Emmett J Route 5, Nashville, Tenn. 

Riddle, Charles B., Jr.. . 14 Pennsylvania Ave, Decatur, Ga 

Sneed, John F Coal Creek. Tenn. 

Allen, Walter C....111 W. Evi-ing Ave., South Bend. Ind. 
Scharneweber, Edward C Cresco, Iowa 



Shaw, Andrew M 33 High St.. Winsted, Conn. 

LoNES, Ernest 702 Calloway St., Knoxville, Tenn. 

COOKS 

LoPOSSER. Jaimes H Seymour, Tenn. 

Edmonson, Flovd Route 2, New Tazewell, Tenn. 

Dowdy. Jewel E Forest Hill. Tenn. 

BUGLERS 

Bridges, George W Hanover Court. Birmingham. Ala. 

Bailey. George R 1600 Worth St.. Knoxville. Tenn. 




THE VICTORT MEDAL 





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MEXICAN BORDER 
SERVICE MEDAL 



Service 

The Victory Medal will be awarded to all persons who 
served on active duly m the army of the United States at 
any lime between April 6. 1917. and Nov. II. 1918. and 
whose service was honorable. The ribbon of the medal will 
bear clasps indicating the service of the individual. Members 
of the 55th Field Artillery Brigade will be entitled to four 
such clasps, and to four stars on the ribbon, when worn without 
the medal. These are as follows: Service in the First Army 
area between August 30 and Nov. II. 1918; the St. Mihiel 
offensive. Sept. 12 to 16. 1918; the Meuse-Argonne offensive. 



Medals 

Sept. 26 to Nov. 11. 1918; service in the Second Army area 
between Oct. 12 and Nov. II. 1918. 

The Mexican Border Service Medal was awarded for service 
in the National Guard on the Mexican border in the years 
1916 and 1917. Persons entitled to this medal, who are not 
now in the service, may secure permission from the Adjutant 
General of the Army, Washington. D. C to purchase the same. 
In writing for this permission give rank and organization. 

No advice is obtainable at this time as to when distribution 
of the Victory Medals will be made. 




Implements of Modern Warfare 

(1) A vicious litlle one-pounder, (2) Arliliery observation post. (3) Artillerymen restmg in forest after an all-night hike. The .wigs on the 
guns are tor eoncealment from enemy airplanes. (4) Hotchkiss machme gun on a novel mounting. (5) The light Browning automatic rifle, 
b) Ihe gun that fired the firs, American shot ,n the war. (7) Water-cooled Browning (heavy) machine gun. (8) Anti-aircraft defense. 
(V) ieltmg fuses for anti-aircraft 75 shells. (10) One of the G. P. F.'s powder charges being inserted in breech. (II) One-pounder firing 
at a machme gun nesi, (12) G. P. F-, motor-drawn, on the march. (13) French aviator w,th double Lewis guns. (14) Carrier p.geons 







MISCELLANEOUS 







Specimens of French Literature 




In the Captured Salient 

(1) The German cemetery at St. Mihiel. (2) French artillery on the move wilh twelve horses to each gun. (3) Infantry resting on the battlefield 
during the advance. (4) What was left after four years' shelling — Seichprey. (5) A sample of the German wire in the St. Mihiel salient. (6) 
The village of Pannes. (7) A German locomotive. (8) The chateau at Euvezin. (9) Palatial German dug-outs. (10) The old front 
lines near Vaux. (II) A battery of I55-mm. Howitzers firing against the retreating Germans. (12) Ruin and desolation. (13) A bit of 
road congestion. 




After the Armistice 

mi Jt'h fl Tr''""7;?r\ ^^^ ^^^ "''^""^ ■" "^^ ^'^ °^ Luxemburg. (3) The arch of welcc:ne a, Mersch, Luxemburg. (4) Ger- 
the streets of hsch, Luxemburg. (8) The reception on the Rhine. 



FROM A SOLDIER'S SKETCH BOOK 

DRAWINGS MADE WHILE IN FRANCE WITH THE 
40th ENGINEERS CAMOUFLAGE 

Sy SERGEANT KERR EBY 



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Promotions 35 th Field Artillery Brigade 

General Headquarters 

American Expeditionary Forces, France 

February 23, 1919 

SPECIAL ORDERS NO. 54-A. 
Extract 
Par. 3. Under authority contained in Paragrapii 1, War Department Cablegram No. Ibbl , dated 
January 27, 1919, the following temporary appointments in the Field Artillery, United States Army, during 
the existing emergency, are announced, with rank from February 23, 1919. 



NAME 



APPOINTED 



From 



To 



ASSIGNED 



James A. Gleason 

Enoch Ensley ..__ -... 

Lennox P. McClendon . 

Louis B. Crayton --- 

Robert M. Hanes 
Park B. Smith 
Avery Robinson 

John M. Lovejoy 

Wade V. Bowman 

Richard D. Dixon 

Beverly S. Royster, Jr.. 
Robert H. Bell 

Jesse M. Mitchell 

Philip P. Cole 
Jules B. Rozier. Jr 

John F. Robertson... 

Thomas G. Bard 

James T. Bagley .*. 

R. Hoyt Fulmer 

Urban E. Bowes , 

Marshall S. Barnett 

Owen H. Guion. Jr 

Robert T. Johnson 

William C. Carman 

Clark N. Bass 

Clyde H. Hunter 

Harry M. Woodward 

Dudley R. Patterson 

Edward J. Roxbury 

Charles W. Bender . 

Henry T. Schiffley 



Lt. Col 

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1st Lieut 
1st Lieut 
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1st Lieut 

1st Lieut 

Capt. M. 

Capt. M. 



I 14th Field Artillery 
I 1 5th Field Artillery 
1 13th Field Artillery 
1 13th Field Artillery 
I 13th Field Artillery 
105th Amm. Train. 
Hqrs. 55th F. A. Brigade 
Hqrs. 55th F. A. Brigade 
1 13th Field Artillery 
I 13th Field Artillery 
1 13th Field Artillery 
I 14th Field Artillery 
1 14th Field Artillery 
1 14th Field Artillery 
I 15th Field Artillery 
I 15th Field Artillery 
I 15th Field Artillery 
105th Amm. Train 
105th Amm. Train 
Hqrs. 55th F. A. Brigade 
I 13th Field Artillery 
I I 3th Field Artillery 
I 14th Field Artillery 
I 14th Field Artillery 
I 14th Field Artillery 
I 14lh Field Artillery 
1 15th Field Artillery 
I 15th Field Artillery 
I 15th Field Artillery 
I 15th Field Artillery 
105th Amm. Train 



Pending the confirmation of these appointments and the receipt of commissions from the War Department, 
this order will serve the purpose of a commission. 

By command of General Pershing: 

James W. McAndrew, 

Chief of Staff. 
Official: 

Robert C. Davis, 

Adjutant General. 





(1) They were handy as stretcher bearer: 



From the Front to the Base Ports 

(2) Types of German prisoners. (3) General Pershing and Marshal Foche. (4) Going aboard ship 
at St. Nazaire for the journey home. (5) Toilet faclMlies were not always of the best. (6) Infantry formation at the immediate front. (7) The 
roads were sometimes a little crowded. (8) Salvage dump where the wreckage is accumulated. (9) This German cried Kamerad too late. 
(10) An American laundry at the front. (11) Ou, la, la; "A Peach of France." (12) French women decorating graves of American 
soldiers in the S. O. S. (13) Holchkiss machine gun. 



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Recommendations For Reserve Corps Commissions 

Headquarters 1 1 5th Field Artillery 

American Expeditionary Forces 

February 26, 1919 

A. p. O. NO. 762 
From: Commanding Officer, 1 15th Field Artillery. 
To: Commanding General, 30th Division. 
Subject: Reserve Corps Commissions. 

1 . Enclosed herewith are approved recommendations for commissions in Reserve Corps as follows : 



Grade 
Recommended 



Arm 



OF Service 



Virgil Sullivan Adkins 

Herbert Oscar Anderson 

Olney Ben Anderson 

Joseph Henry Baker 
Howard Hill Briles 

Roger Miller Bruce 

Claude Hamilton Calvert.... 

William Thomas Cheairs 

John Wesley Davis 

Fred Abner Dinwiddie 

Lon Hinton Drake 

William Lafayette East 

John Thomas Gwinner 

Robert Donaldson Hill 
James Granville Holleman .. 

James Andrew Howard 

Herman Reid Hubbard. 

Burris Edward Keeton 

Fred Orville Leibundgut 

James Chilton Matthai 

Spencer Richard Mellow 

Henry Clay Merritt 

George Ernest Morgan 

John Harris Morriss 

William Nathaniel Naylor 
Charles Henry Norman, Jr.. 
George Reinholdt Reibeth... 

Frank Hacker Robinson 

Frank Gracey Rutherford . . 

James Leo Shea 

John Herbert Steiger 

Martin Joseph Tinsley 

Leonard Allen Turnage 

Herman Strang Ward 

James Cooper Ward 

Edward Clements Weinrich 

Oscar Davis West 

Albert Jackson Whitley. 

Scott Wright 



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Sergeant 

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1st Sergt 

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1st Sergt. 

Sergeant.. 

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Corporal 

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1st Lieut.. 
2nd Lieut 
2nd Lieut 
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Field Artillery 

Quartermaster Corp.-; 

Field Artillery 

Infantry 

Cavalry 

Field Artill 

Field Artill 

Field Artill 

Field Artillery 

Field Artillery 

Field Artillery 

Ordnance Corps 

Field Artillery 

Quartermaster Corps 

Infantry 

Field Artillery 

Quartermaster Corps 

Infantry 

Infantry 

Field Artillery 

Ordnance Corps 

Quartermaster Corps 

Infantry 

Cavalry 

Field Artillery 

Field Artillery 

Field Artillery 

Field Artillery 

Quartermaster Corps 

Ordnance Corps 

Field Artillery 

Field Artillery 

Signal Corps 

Field Artillery 

Field Artillery 

Field Artillery 

Infantry 

Field Artillery 

Infantry 



Harry S. Berry, 

Colonel 1 15th F. A. 




\Vre.cr and Ruin At the Front 

(1) Type ot camouflaged toad to prevent observation from enemy balloons. (2) Characteristic shelters built by French engineers. (3) German 
Laagers at Deuxnouds. ° (4) Pontoon bridge across the Meuse river at St. M.hlel. (5) German shelters m the St. Mihiel salient. (6) The ru.' 
of Verdun. Scarcely a bu.ldmg was undamaged. (7) Wrecked bridge across the Moselle river at Pont-a-Mousson. (8) Battery pos.t.on .n 
the Argonne forest. (9) Biidge wrecked by Germans. (10) Tank crossing bridge repaired by American Engineers. (II) Liberty truck bemg 
helped over a bad stretch of road. 




With the Thirtieth Division, and Other Views 

(1) King George or England and General Pershing inspecting troops of the 30th Division. (2) Tennessee doughboys searching German pris- 
oners. (3) Belgian refugees. (4) Entrance to the famous Hindenburg tunnel at Bellecourt. captured by the 30th Division. (5) General 
Lewis, who commanded the 30th Division, with German "Elephant," anil-tank gun. (6) French refugees. (7) The canal near Bellecourt where 
Tennessee soldiers won undying fame. (8) Salvaged shoes. (9) Fool bridge across the Meuse river built by American engineers. (10) Sal- 
vation Army lassie making pies at the front. (II) Pack mule with m'^dical supplies. (12) One of the big German shells. (13) The French 
were always inquisitive. (14) American balloon shot down In flame', by German aviator. 




It Was All That General Sherman Said 

(1) Captured German rifles. (2) ■•?«?■■ or -dog" tenls— American shelters much ridiculed by the French. (3) Observation balloon concealed in 
forest. (4) American doughboys resting in captured German trenches. (5) A view in the impenetrable Argonne forest. (6) "No Man's 
Land. • (7) Brmgmg m American wounded by the truck load. (8) There were some amusements even in the first line trenches. (9) Troops 
of the 42d D.vis.on holdmg a temporary trench in the St. Mihiel advance. (10) Tile-finished German trenches. (11) Camouflaged trenches. 
(12)^ German gas mask. (13) Gas mask for horses. (14) American gas mask, about the most uncomfortable contrivance ever invented. 



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The Wastage and Suffering of Modern Warfare 

(1) Troops going Into action in the St. Mihiel offensive. (2) F.rst .jid station ,n gassed area. Wounded and medical men are all wearing their 
gas masks. (3) French women manufacturing camouflage material. (4) One of the mine craters near Les Eparges. (3) Dump of 75 shell cases. 
Mm'^-'^'"'^' ''''^''^' ''""''■ ^'^ ^'" "'""""^S^'' trenches. (8) A belt of German barbed wire. (9) The camouflage material came in rolls. 
(10) Cuttmg a path through barbed wire entanglements. (II) Red Cross dressing station. (12) Excellently camouflaged gun position. (13) 
First aid. (14) German portable searchlight. (15) In the front line trenches. (16) German wounded receiving medical attention at American 
dressing station. (17) Souvenirs. (18) German prisoners at work in the S. O. S. 




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